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Prolific
Prolific runs paid participant studies for robotics and physical-AI teams. Its Physical AI program includes robot video evaluation, trajectory and motion-preference comparison, robot task-progress rating, policy-rollout comparison, physical-scene annotation, grasp filtering, and human-robot-interaction surveys. Prolific says 2,000+ robotics projects have run on the platform, with a network of 300,000+ participants across 35+ countries who complete structured tasks online and are paid per study. AITraining.jobs, a careers site we also made, lists paid research studies and surveys for AI teams beyond robotics, with their pay.
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Is Prolific legit?
Established research-participant platform; 2,000+ robotics/physical-AI projects run to date. (checked on prolific.com, 29 Oct 2026) It pays Paid per study (at least $8/hr; cash out from $6).
Joined through its own application (it publishes no job postings)
Per-study pay, cashed out to PayPal from a $6 minimum. (checked on prolific.com, 29 Oct 2026)
Legitimate paid studies, but robot-specific work is gated by qualification filters and a signup waitlist. (checked on prolific.com, 29 Oct 2026)
Honest catches
- Pay here is stated by the employer, not measured live from a job feed, so treat it as a benchmark rather than a guaranteed rate.
What Prolific pays
Stated by the employer · updated 2026-10-29Researched rate card (stated by the employer), updated 2026-10-29
Prolific pays per study and lets participants cash out via PayPal once they've earned at least $6/£6 (always cash, never gift cards). Prolific requires studies to pay at least $8/£6 an hour and recommends $12/£9; robotics studies are gated by specialism filters, and onboarding is currently a waitlist. (checked on researcher-help.prolific.com, 29 Oct 2026)
| Role | Work type | Researched pay |
|---|---|---|
| Robot video evaluation / motion-preference studies | Evaluation & QA | per study |
| Physical-scene annotation & HRI surveys | Data Annotation | per study |
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Live Prolific roles
Prolific does not publish a public job feed.
Applications go through Prolific's own site, and once you have an account it matches you to work.
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Prolific keeps no public job board for us to read, so we'll send you new Data Annotation openings from employers that do, each with its posted pay. No cost, and you can stop any time.
Kinds of work at Prolific
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What our research records about Prolific
2 dated facts from public sources (the company itself, filings, regulators, courts and the press), each kept with the publication it comes from in one of our research reports. Newest first; the newest is from 18 Oct 2026.
Prolific: Offers commissioned embodied-AI training data from its participant pool: egocentric video, manipulation task recordings and and physical scene annotation.
Source: Prolific (company site) · In Robot data vendors
Prolific: Says it is trusted by more than 100 robotics and physical AI research teams.
Source: Prolific (company site) · In Robot data vendors
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Frequently asked questions
Is Prolific legit?
Established research-participant platform; 2,000+ robotics/physical-AI projects run to date.
Does Prolific pay?
Yes. Established research-participant platform; 2,000+ robotics/physical-AI projects run to date. Payouts: Per-study pay, cashed out to PayPal from a $6 minimum.
How much does Prolific pay?
Paid per study (at least $8/hr; cash out from $6). Prolific pays per study and lets participants cash out via PayPal once they've earned at least $6/£6 (always cash, never gift cards). Prolific requires studies to pay at least $8/£6 an hour and recommends $12/£9; robotics studies are gated by specialism filters, and onboarding is currently a waitlist.
Is Prolific worth it?
Pay at Prolific: Paid per study (at least $8/hr; cash out from $6). It works best as flexible, project-by-project income, since each project sets its own pay, equipment and eligibility. Worth knowing: Legitimate paid studies, but robot-specific work is gated by qualification filters and a signup waitlist.
How does Prolific pay out?
Per-study pay, cashed out to PayPal from a $6 minimum.
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