# Hugging Face — Scaling robotics datasets with video encoding

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/video-encoding
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1834-scaling-robotics-datasets-with-video-encoding

Hugging Face introduces a new LeRobotDataset format that uses video encoding to compress robotics datasets, reducing size to an average of 14% of original while preserving training capabilities, along with visualization tools.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/video-encoding:

> We propose a LeRobotDataset format that is simple, lightweight, easy to share (with native integration to the hub) and easy to visualize.

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