Are Meta’s smart glasses training AI for robots?

Smart glasses can look like a simple consumer gadget: a camera on your face, speakers in your ears, and an AI assistant that can answer questions about what you see. But the same device can give an AI system something it has always lacked: a first-person view of everyday human life. That matters because teaching AI to write or generate images is very different from teaching a machine to move through the physical world. A robot needs to understand where objects are, what happens when they move, and how hands interact with things that bend, break, spill, or change shape. Meta has spent years researching wearable devices that capture this kind of information. Its Ray-Ban Meta glasses put some of that technology into a consumer product, giving…