AI companies are coming for the plumbers
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Offering free plumbing and HVAC repairs across multiple cities in exchange for sensor-rich recordings is a data land grab for robotics training—field service work is being converted into labeled trajectories. If you operate in skilled trades, assume your workflows are on someone’s training roadmap and start mapping which tasks are defensible vs. codifiable.
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