Terms of Service

01Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Tera Labor (“Tera Labor”, “we”, “us”, “our”). They govern your access to and use of the website located at teralabor.com and its subdomains, including the sample-recordings pages (together, the “Site”), and of the video, images, telemetry, chapter data, text and other material we make available on the Site (the “Content”).

By accessing or using the Site you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

If you use the Site on behalf of a company, university, research institute or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and “you” refers to both you and it. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to use the Site.

02The Site and the Sample Recordings

The Site describes Tera Labor’s hand-first data collection for wet-lab and bench work: recordings made with instrumented gloves and synchronized cameras, with protocol steps labelled in time. To illustrate what we produce, the Site publishes a small set of example recordings, rendered telemetry, still frames and step annotations (the “Sample Recordings”).

The Sample Recordings are provided for evaluation only. They are excerpts of real sessions, edited for length, and are not a complete dataset, a product specification, or a warranty of what any particular deployment will produce. Protocol step labels were transcribed from on-screen overlays and may contain transcription errors. Nothing on the Site is laboratory, safety, medical or regulatory guidance; do not rely on the Sample Recordings to perform any procedure.

We may change, suspend or remove any part of the Site or Content at any time without notice.

03Your licence to the Sample Recordings

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Tera Labor grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to:

1. view and stream the Sample Recordings and other Content through the Site, on devices you control; and
2. share links to the Site and its Sample Recordings with colleagues inside your organisation solely for the purpose of evaluating a potential engagement with Tera Labor (the “Evaluation Purpose”).

All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The Site does not offer a download facility, and no right to download, capture, record or retain copies of the Sample Recordings is granted. The licence ends automatically if you breach these Terms, or when we ask you to stop; on termination you must delete any copies of the Sample Recordings that may be in your possession or control.

04Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted in Section 3, you must not, and must not permit or assist anyone else to:

• download, screen-record, capture, rip or otherwise make or retain copies of the Sample Recordings, other than transient copies made automatically by your browser in the course of streaming;
• publish, post, broadcast, redistribute, sell, rent, license or otherwise make the Sample Recordings or any part of them available to the public or to any third party, including on video-sharing platforms, social media, dataset repositories or file-sharing services;
• use the Sample Recordings, the telemetry, the step annotations, frames extracted from them, or any derivative of any of them as training, fine-tuning, validation, benchmarking, evaluation or test data for any machine-learning model, foundation model, robot policy, computer-vision system or similar system, or to develop any dataset intended for such purposes;
• reverse-engineer, decompile or attempt to reconstruct the underlying sensor data, recording pipeline, rendering pipeline or annotation methodology from the Content;
• remove, obscure or alter any overlay, watermark, notice, attribution or metadata included in the Content, or re-encode the Sample Recordings in a way that does so;
• use the Content to identify, contact, profile or draw conclusions about any individual who appears in it;
• use the Content or the Site to build or market a product or service that competes with Tera Labor;
• scrape, crawl, mirror or bulk-download the Site, or access the Site by automated means in a way that burdens our infrastructure;
• circumvent any access control, or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to it;
• misrepresent your affiliation with Tera Labor, or imply that Tera Labor endorses you or your organisation; or
• use the Site or Content in violation of any applicable law, regulation or third-party right.

If you would like to use the Sample Recordings for any purpose outside the Evaluation Purpose, including academic publication or press, write to us at team@teralabor.com. Any such use requires our prior written permission.

05People who appear in the recordings

The Sample Recordings depict real people working in real laboratories. Those individuals participated with informed consent, and the recordings have been reviewed before publication. Out of respect for them, you agree not to use the Content to identify, contact, harass or make claims about any person shown, and not to extract or circulate images of any individual separately from the recordings as published.

If you appear in a Sample Recording and have a concern about it, please contact us at team@teralabor.com. We will respond promptly and will remove or edit content where appropriate.

06Intellectual property

The Site and all Content — including the Sample Recordings, the glove telemetry and its visual rendering, step annotations, text, graphics, page design, code, the Tera Labor name and logo, and the selection and arrangement of all of the foregoing — are owned by Tera Labor or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trade-mark, trade-secret and other intellectual-property laws worldwide.

These Terms do not transfer any ownership interest to you. “Tera Labor” and the Tera Labor mark may not be used without our prior written consent. Other names and marks that appear on the Site belong to their respective owners.

If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, please send a notice to team@teralabor.com identifying the work, the location of the allegedly infringing material, your contact details, a statement of good-faith belief, a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorised to act, and your physical or electronic signature.

07Deployments and data collection engagements

The Site invites laboratories and robotics teams to request a custom deployment. Any actual engagement — including on-site recording, the equipment we bring, participant consent processes, the data we deliver, ownership and licensing of that data, confidentiality, fees, and the treatment of any personal data — is governed exclusively by a separate written agreement signed by Tera Labor and your organisation (for example a master services agreement and statement of work).

Nothing on the Site, in these Terms, or in any email exchange prior to signature constitutes an offer, a quotation, a commitment to deliver any particular data, or a representation about the volume, quality, format or timing of any deliverable. Descriptions on the Site of “what you get back” are illustrative of our typical output and are superseded in full by the terms of any signed agreement.

Information you send us when requesting a deployment is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. Please do not send us confidential or proprietary information about your protocols or research until a non-disclosure agreement is in place; anything you send before that is provided on a non-confidential basis.

08Feedback

If you send us comments, suggestions or ideas about the Site, the Sample Recordings or our services (“Feedback”), you grant Tera Labor a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, modify and commercialise the Feedback for any purpose without obligation to you. You represent that you have the right to provide the Feedback.

09Third-party services and links

The Site is hosted on infrastructure operated by third parties (currently GitHub Pages). Your use of the Site is therefore also subject to those providers’ terms and policies, over which we have no control. The Site may link to third-party websites; we do not endorse and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or practices, and your use of them is at your own risk.

10Disclaimers

The Site and all Content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tera Labor and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors and licensors disclaim all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy and quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

Without limiting the foregoing, Tera Labor does not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free; that the Content is accurate, complete or current; that the Sample Recordings are representative of any deployment; or that any defect will be corrected. No advice or information obtained from Tera Labor or through the Site creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

11Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will Tera Labor or its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors or licensors be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data or opportunity, however caused and under any theory of liability, arising out of or relating to the Site, the Content or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tera Labor’s total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Site, the Content or these Terms will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100).

The limitations in this Section reflect a reasonable allocation of risk for a free, informational website and form an essential basis of the bargain between you and Tera Labor. They do not limit liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where such limits are prohibited. Liability under a signed deployment agreement is governed by that agreement, not this Section.

12Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Tera Labor and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors and licensors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Site or the Content in breach of these Terms, including any use of the Sample Recordings outside the Evaluation Purpose; (b) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party; or (c) any content or information you submit to us. We may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.

13Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site, and revoke the licence in Section 3, at any time and for any reason, including if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms. On termination you must stop using the Site and delete any copies of the Sample Recordings that may be in your possession or control. Sections 4 through 6, 8 and 10 through 16 survive any termination.

14Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Site are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Informal resolution first. If you have a dispute with us, you agree to write to team@teralabor.com describing it and to make a good-faith attempt to resolve it informally for at least thirty (30) days before starting any formal proceeding.

Venue. Subject to the paragraph above, any action arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you and Tera Labor consent to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in those courts. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual-property rights or to enforce Section 4.

Time limit. To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site must be filed within one (1) year after the claim arose; otherwise it is permanently barred.

If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose mandatory law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts or under your local law, nothing in this Section deprives you of that right.

15Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The “Effective” date at the top of this page shows when the current version took effect, and we will keep prior versions available on request. Material changes will be signposted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after a revised version takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revision; if you do not agree, stop using the Site.

16General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Tera Labor regarding the Site and supersede all prior understandings on that subject. They do not modify any signed agreement between your organisation and Tera Labor.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign them without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

Export. You must comply with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws in connection with your use of the Site and Content.

No third-party beneficiaries. Except as expressly stated, these Terms confer no rights on any third party.

Notices. We may give notice by posting on the Site or by email to any address you have provided. Notices to us must be sent to team@teralabor.com.

Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only; the English version controls.

17Contact

Questions about these Terms, permission requests, or notices can be sent to: