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shift is the consumer brand of microagi, a Munich-founded research lab for physical AI. Since May 2026, shift has offered free cleanings in New York in exchange for anonymized training data — Munich is next.
Numbers
- 25.000+
- people recording with shift
- $5 Mio.+
- paid out to contributors
- 15+
- countries
- 20+
- partners
Coverage
- Ars Technica · 2026-05-29Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training ↗
- Semafor · 2026-05-29AI startup offers free home cleaning to train its robots ↗
- Business Insider · 2026-06-04This startup will clean your apartment for free, if AI can watch ↗
- Fast Company · 2026-06-28Shift offers free house cleaning—in exchange, your privacy ↗
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