Welding egocentric video: measuring, cutting and joining metal, in open-air workshops.
Head-mounted footage of Nigerian welders building gates, window protectors, frames and stands: marking steel, cutting and grinding, tacking and welding, then cleaning the joints and painting.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Welding and metalwork, step by step.
Open-air welding and fabrication workshops by the roadside in Lagos, where gates and burglary-proof bars are built to order.
Measure and mark
Tape and square on steel bars and pipes, scribing or chalking cut lines.
Cut and grind
Angle grinders and cut-off saws through steel, then grinding edges smooth.
Fit and tack
Clamping pieces at angle, checking square, tack welds to hold the frame.
Weld and finish
Full welds along joints, chipping slag, wire-brushing, primer and paint.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Arc welding machine and electrodes
- Angle grinder and cut-off saw
- Clamps, squares and tape
- Chipping hammer and wire brush
- Steel bars, pipes and sheets
- Paint brushes and primer
Interactions worth labelling.
- Heavy two-handed tool control (grinder, saw)
- Holding and positioning long, rigid workpieces
- Clamping and squaring before joining
- Repeated strike actions: chipping, hammering
- Switching between protective gear and tools
Why welding footage helps robotics and video models.
Industrial manipulation
Fabrication is the kind of heavy, rigid-object work industrial and construction robots are built for.
Safety-aware behaviour
Footage shows how skilled workers handle hot, sharp and heavy objects, useful for safety-aware policies.
Hard visual conditions
Sparks, glare and smoke stress-test perception models in a way clean datasets do not.
How each clip is recorded and delivered.
- Camera
- Head-mounted smartphone, 1080p at 30 fps (H.264), wide field of view
- Sensors
- IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope) and GPS recorded alongside the video as CSV sidecars
- Your hardware
- Stereo, depth or multi-camera rigs supported if you ship them: we fit them and train recorders
- Label layers
- Curated minutes, 21-keypoint hand pose, action segments, captions
- Privacy
- Faces of bystanders and number plates blurred in every delivered file
- Formats
- MP4 + JSON per clip, IMU/GPS CSV sidecar, LeRobot or RLDS on request
- Delivery
- Weekly batches over signed links, with a manifest and a QA report
- Arc glare
- The arc can white out the frame; recorders wear eye protection and we label glare minutes rather than hide them
- Safety first
- No recording that makes the welder remove protective gear; a buyer rig with a filter can be fitted
- Noise
- Grinders are loud; audio is delivered as recorded or stripped on request
Four checks before a minute reaches you.
ID-checked recorders
BVN or NIN plus a live selfie matched to the ID, and a bank account in the same name, before any paid task.
Consenting workplaces
Each workplace is registered in person by a TrustAm field agent, with the owner’s consent and a location fence.
Live capture only
A spoken challenge code, motion sensors and GPS show each clip was filmed live, at work. No camera-roll uploads.
Blurred and reviewed
Bystander faces and number plates are blurred; a trained reviewer approves or cuts every minute before delivery.
Buyers usually ask.
Is it safe to film welding with a phone?
Recorders keep their usual eye protection. The phone sits on a head strap, above or beside the shield. Minutes where the arc saturates the image are labelled, and we never ask a welder to work less safely for the camera.
Do you cover carpentry and other workshop trades too?
Yes. Carpentry is set up in Lagos, and other workshop trades can be scoped per order.
How do I order welding egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the welding tasks, hours, label layers and format you need. We record a free sample of about 10 hours to your spec first. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.
How many hours can you deliver?
We are a Lagos pilot collecting to order and scaling. After the free sample, a paid pilot is usually 100 to 500 hours in weekly batches. We do not promise hours we have not recorded.
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Tell us what you need. We send a free sample first.
Email [email protected] with the data type, hours, languages or trades, labels and format. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.