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Request access
Tell us who you are and how you want in. It takes about three minutes.
Request access
Help build the data layer for robots that work with people.
TRACE is an open, in-the-wild record of how people move, work, and cooperate — the training data behind robots that share our spaces. Tell us how you want in.
TRACE
Dynamics
Training robots to move with you.
What this is
An open corpus of real human work.
Not staged demos — people doing real jobs, captured with a chest- or head-mounted core plus 6–20 body sensors, so behavior models learn how humans move and cooperate. Free for research. Licensed for commercial use. Contributors share the revenue.
In-the-wild dataFree for researchersContributors paidPrivacy by design
After you submit, you get a confirmation right away and a real reply from a person as access opens — not an autoresponder loop. Your details are only used to follow up about access.
How it works
From request to first data.
The same path, whichever way you join.
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We review
A person reviews your request and follows up as access opens in waves.
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Get set up
Contributors receive a kit and onboarding, researchers sign the data license, hardware requests join the waitlist.
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Start
Record work and earn as the data licenses, or download the WELL for your research.
Questions
The things worth knowing before you ask.
Straight answers on who we are, how contributors are paid, and how the data is governed.
Is this real?
Who is behind TRACE?
A small, founder-led team building the whole stack end to end — capture hardware, firmware, the WELL corpus, and the contributor network. That stack is already built and proven in multi-device field testing; the work now is scaling contributors.
Payment
How and when do contributors get paid?
You earn a share of the licensing revenue the dataset generates, in proportion to your verified contribution, for as long as the data keeps earning. Issuance is front-loaded, so the earliest contributors hold the largest share. Exact terms are set during onboarding.
Privacy
What is captured, and how is my privacy protected?
You control what each session records. TRACE supplies consent-aware capture modes and guidance, and only sessions that pass automated quality, fraud, and capture-policy checks enter the corpus. The data is valued for physical behavior, not the identities of the people in it.
Licensing
What needs a commercial license?
Research, non-commercial work, and product development can use the WELL for free. A commercial license applies only when a resulting model or dataset is sold or deployed commercially.
Hardware
What does the kit cost, and when can I get one?
A baseline kit — an MMT core plus six to eight body sensors — targets about $200. Hardware opens to approved contributors first; join the waitlist and you are in the first group offered kits.
Obligation
Is there any obligation?
None. No minimum, no schedule, no lock-in — you contribute the sessions you want, when they fit your work. And because your share tracks what you contribute, more hours means more earning.
Not sure yet?
See what you would be joining.
The WELL and contributor pages explain what TRACE captures, how it's kept trustworthy, and how contributors share in what it earns.