Acquires 20 wearable data collection systems to capture real-world housekeeping tasks to support robot learning and development
SINGAPORE, Oct. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) (“YYForce” or the “Company”), a technology-enabled provider of workforce solutions, integrated facility management and commercial robotics services, today announced the acquisition of 20 wearable data collection systems to support its humanoid robotics development program.
The systems, comprising head-mounted egocentric cameras and synchronized wrist-mounted cameras, are intended to capture first-person views and close-up recordings of human task execution. YYForce plans to deploy the equipment through an initiative with the housekeeping team at Novotel Singapore on Stevens, focusing initially on selected hospitality workflows.
The initiative is designed to build a task-specific dataset documenting how experienced housekeeping personnel perform routine service activities. Following review, annotation and technical processing, the demonstrations are intended to support robot learning research, task development and evaluation, including work involving vision-language-action (VLA) models.
Initial Focus: Housekeeping Demonstrations
Planned data collection will focus on selected tasks, including:
- Bed and linen preparation: Bed-making sequences, linen handling and pillow arrangement.
- Towel and amenity organization: Towel folding, placement and replenishment of guest-room supplies.
- Selected cleaning activities: Surface wiping and handling of cleaning tools and materials.
These demonstrations are intended to capture task sequences, hand-object interactions and variations in real operating environments. Translating human demonstrations into robot capabilities will require additional processing, adaptation to the selected robotic hardware, and controlled testing.
“Access to real operating environments and experienced service teams is an important part of our robotics development strategy,” said Mike Fu, Chief Executive Officer of YYForce. “This initiative will help us document how housekeeping tasks are performed in practice and assess how those demonstrations can support humanoid robot learning. Our focus is on building useful datasets, validating individual tasks and progressing toward practical applications in hospitality and facility services.”
Supporting YYForce’s Workforce and Robotics Strategy
The initiative supports YYForce’s broader strategy of combining workforce expertise, facility management operations and robotics to develop technology-enabled service delivery.
The planned development process includes reviewing recordings for quality, annotating selected tasks, preparing suitable training datasets and evaluating whether the demonstrations improve performance on defined robotic tasks. Initial evaluation will focus on task completion, repeatability and safe execution under controlled conditions.
Data collection is planned to follow agreed hotel operating procedures and applicable data protection requirements. The Company expects that collection arrangements will address participant notification and consent where required, guest privacy, access controls and permitted uses of recorded material before recording begins.
The initiative is a development-stage program. The acquisition of the systems and collection of demonstrations do not, by themselves, establish autonomous humanoid capabilities or readiness for commercial deployment.
About YYForce Inc.
YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) is a technology-enabled provider of workforce solutions and integrated facility management and commercial robotics services. The Company is developing AI-enabled workforce platforms and expanding its commercial robotics capabilities to support customers across hospitality, facilities management and other service industries.
