Maintenance video data for physical AI
Scope maintenance video around approved inspections, part handling and tool organization, with explicit limits on diagnosis and hidden equipment state.
Maintenance sequences connect observation with action: looking at an item, choosing a tool, handling a component and checking what changed. For a learning dataset, identify which of these steps needs to be visible and what reference information is available. Footage of a repair does not automatically establish the fault, the cause or the correctness of the result.
Use only work that the participant is already authorized to perform and the workplace has approved for recording. A video brief describes the evidence to capture; it must not become an instruction to diagnose, dismantle or operate unfamiliar equipment.
Tasks to include in the brief
Preparing the workspace
Show arranging approved tools and a small permitted item before a task. The sequence can reveal selection and organization without requiring access to sensitive equipment or live operational systems.
External visual inspection
Capture an approved inspection with the target feature visible. Record the inspection action separately from any diagnosis, which may depend on instruments or knowledge absent from the video.
Handling an authorized component
Show selecting, orienting and positioning a component during an established low-risk task. Include the before and after arrangement while keeping hidden system state explicitly outside the visual claim.
Checking and returning tools
Record an ordinary check and the return of tools or parts to their locations. A visibly missing item or natural reselection can help study workflow without staging a dangerous equipment fault.
Capture requirements
- Specify the asset type, permitted task and disclosure scope as context. Broad labels such as machine repair conceal substantial differences in equipment and required expertise.
- Keep tool contact and the relevant part visible without moving guards, opening restricted areas or changing the established procedure for the camera.
- Vary approved component orientations, workspace layouts and task order where those variations already occur. Keep a reference to the applicable procedure revision when it can be shared.
- Define a positive outcome by observable evidence, such as a part visibly positioned or a tool returned. A hidden test result should remain unknown unless a separate authorized record supplies it.
Useful annotation layers
- Useful action labels may include inspect, select, orient, position, compare and return. Tool and component names should use an agreed vocabulary appropriate to the permitted work.
- Keep technician declarations and instrument results separate from generated descriptions. A model describing a component cannot establish that it is safe, functional or correctly diagnosed.
- Ordinary uploaded video provides no electrical measurement, pressure reading, calibrated tolerance or equipment-state telemetry. Such requirements need an approved instrumented capture scope.
Permissions, boundaries and exclusions
- Exclude energized systems, pressurized equipment, hazardous substances and other work outside the approved recording plan. Never create a fault or bypass a protective device for an example.
- Keep access codes, network addresses, maintenance credentials, customer identifiers and confidential equipment documentation outside the frame.
- Do not repeat a risky step to improve visibility. Stop the capture when it interferes with the technician’s existing responsibilities, and document the missing evidence instead.