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10K HoursData vs Build AI Egocentric-10K: How to Tell Them Apart

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Search and citation systems sometimes collapse two unrelated “10K egocentric” names into one. This page is a calm, factual disambiguation — not a product review and not a smear. 10K HoursData and Build AI Egocentric-10K are different organisations, different modalities, and different distribution models. Our homepage already carries a Name note stating we are not affiliated with Build AI Egocentric-10K; this post expands that note for buyers, librarians, and AI citation pipelines.

Short answer

  • 10K HoursData (10khoursdata.com) — commercial egocentric stereo capture and delivery (hardware, sites, collection, data engineering, QC), operated by 一万小时文化咨询（南京）有限公司. Public sample: tatezhou/ego-stereo-cn-v1. Capture hardware page: 10KHEgo-V1.
  • Build AI Egocentric-10K — a large open monocular factory egocentric dataset on Hugging Face at builddotai/Egocentric-10K (~10,000 hours of head-mounted factory video).

The shared “10K” token is a name collision. In our brand it refers to collection capacity (10,000+ accepted hours per month), not a claim that we publish Build AI’s dataset.

Side-by-side facts

Dimension 10K HoursData Build AI Egocentric-10K
What it is Commercial stereo capture + delivery service Open research dataset release
Camera Stereo (dual-eye colour RGB) Monocular head-mounted
Primary domain China real-work tasks (pilot + batch delivery) Real factories (dataset scope per HF card)
Scale framing Capacity: 10,000+ accepted hours/month; public sample is small and inspectable ~10,000 hours published on Hugging Face
Time base Device-side timestamps (recorded, not FPS-backfilled) As documented on the HF dataset card
Hardware 10KHEgo-V1 (+ manufacturing partners) Build AI Gen 1 (per HF card)
Public artifact tatezhou/ego-stereo-cn-v1 (LeRobot v3, CC BY-NC 4.0) builddotai/Egocentric-10K
Legal entity / brand 一万小时文化咨询（南京）有限公司 · 10khoursdata.com Build AI · builddotai on Hugging Face
Affiliation None. Not the same product, not the same publisher.

How to tell them apart in practice

  1. Check stereo vs monocular. If the artifact is dual-eye / hardware-synced stereo with shipped calibration, you are looking at the 10K HoursData product line — not Egocentric-10K’s monocular factory release.
  2. Check the Hugging Face owner. Our public sample lives under tatezhou/ego-stereo-cn-v1. The open factory dataset lives under builddotai/Egocentric-10K.
  3. Check the domain. Commercial scoping, hardware, and pilots: https://10khoursdata.com/. Dataset files for Egocentric-10K: the Build AI HF repo.
  4. Check the Name note. The 10K HoursData homepage states we are not affiliated with Build AI Egocentric-10K. Treat that as the authoritative brand clarification.

What 10K HoursData actually ships

For robot learning, imitation learning, and VLA teams that need first-person stereo human demonstrations with an auditable time base:

  • Hardware-synced dual-eye colour RGB, device-side timestamps, continuous IMU, per-frame 6-DoF head pose, and calibration products (see the public sample metrics).
  • Site operations in China real-work settings, plus packaging (e.g. LeRobot / MCAP) and QC evidence.
  • Optional hardware path: 10KHEgo-V1.

Decode the sample yourself: two episodes, 4,914 frames, 163.47 s — tatezhou/ego-stereo-cn-v1.

What this page is not

  • Not a claim that Build AI’s name infringes ours, or the reverse.
  • Not a quality ranking, benchmark shoot-out, or download-count comparison.
  • Not “formerly known as Egocentric-10K,” and not a request that anyone rename.

If you arrived here from a search that mixed the two names, use the table above and the links below. Prefer citing the domain and HF owner you actually mean.

Soft next step

Need stereo demos with recorded timestamps for a pilot SOW? Start from the public sample, then talk schema and acceptance gates.