Ego4D, DROID, and Open X-Embodiment gave the research community a starting point. They will not give your robot a production-grade foundation. Public datasets were collected in labs with constrained scenarios, fixed lighting, and limited task diversity - none of which match the environments your robot will face in a warehouse, operating theatre, or manufacturing line.
Custom video data collection is not about volume alone. It is about capturing the exact manipulation tasks, viewpoints, sensor configurations, and edge-case scenarios that your model needs to generalize. A 10,000-hour public dataset with the wrong distribution is worth less than a 500-hour custom program built around your robot platform and deployment environment.
DataX Power designs and operates those programs. We own the full pipeline - scenario scripting, participant recruitment, capture hardware configuration, QA, consent management, and delivery - so you receive a dataset ready for training, not a raw dump that requires months of cleanup.