When Zeus, a medical student in Nigeria, returns to his apartment from a long day at the hospital, he straps his equipment on to train humanoid robots (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134993/the-download-gig-workers-training-humanoids-better-ai-benchmarks/). The April 1 2026 edition of The Download identifies this as an emerging form of gig work for robotics data collection.

The newsletter pairs the story with coverage of improved AI benchmarks intended to deliver more accurate evaluations of model performance (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134993/the-download-gig-workers-training-humanoids-better-ai-benchmarks/).

Both topics appear in the same edition of the MIT Technology Review newsletter that provides a daily dose of technology news.