How Long Robot Training Roles Stay Open

Method and definitions

The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day since 12 Sep 2026. Every figure is computed by one database query over the window shown, the same query for the live report and for every edition. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Listing date

The date the employer's job board gives for the posting, or else the first day the role appeared in the feed. A role that arrived with an employer's back catalogue and gives no date has no known listing date.

Cohort

Every role with a known listing date listed from 14 Sep 2026 (the start of this site's index) to the end of the period, except each employer's back catalogue: the roles it already had up in its first week in this dataset.

Lifetime

From the listing date to the last day the role was seen in its employer's feed, in hours, stated in days. A role still listed at the end of the period has lasted at least that long: it is censored, not removed.

Still listed after N weeks

The Kaplan-Meier estimate of the share of roles still in their feed N weeks after their listing date. It counts every role for as long as it has been seen, so roles still listed are not mistaken for short-lived ones. A role first seen more than two days after its listing date surfaced late and counts only from the age it was first seen.

Median lifetime

The age by which half the roles are estimated to have come down. Not reached when more than half are still listed at the oldest age the data covers.

Removed-only median

The median days from listing to last sighting among roles that have already come down, the usual 'median days listed'. It leaves out the roles still up, which are the longer-lived ones, so it is shorter than the median lifetime.

Re-listed

A removed role followed within 14 days by a listing with the same title at the same employer.

Evergreen role

A role open at the end of the period that was listed at least 60 days earlier.

Weekly churn

Of the roles open at 00:00 UTC on a Monday, the share removed during that ISO week, at the employers tracked before the week began.

Kind of work

Each role is classified from its title and description into one of the seven kinds of robot training work this site tracks, from robot teleoperation and demonstration collection to egocentric capture, embodied-AI annotation, robot evaluation, fleet operations and AV and drone operation. Every kind links to its own page.

Window

Live: roles listed from 14 Sep 2026 to yesterday, in UTC. Edition: roles listed from 14 Sep 2026 to the end of that month, observed to the end of the month.

What this data cannot tell you

• Employers that recruit without a public job board are not counted.
• A listing is not a hire, and a removed listing may have been filled, paused or closed: employers do not say which.
• Some employers take roles down and post them again or post one listing per city, so a short listing life is not always a short opening. The re-listing column shows where.
• Feeds are read about once a day: a role listed and removed within a day may be missed, and a removal is dated to the last read that still saw the role.
• Ages beyond what the cohort has been observed for are not estimated, so a young dataset shows the longer ages as n/a.
• An employer that takes a batch of roles down at once (a project closing, a board reorganised) shows as a single high week of churn.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

Editions

The live report follows every role listed since 14 Sep 2026 up to the last complete day, and changes every day. Each complete month is also published as an edition, frozen two days after the month ends, so a figure you cite from an edition never moves.

• Live dataEvery role since the cohort start, recomputed daily

Cite and reuse

Free to quote, chart and republish under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page. Live figures change daily: cite a monthly edition for numbers that will read the same later, or keep the access date.

@misc{robottrainingjobs_how_long_robot_training_roles_stay_open_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {How Long Robot Training Roles Stay Open (live data, 14 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/how-long-robot-training-roles-stay-open}},
  note = {Accessed 10 Oct 2026},
}

Data: all figures as CSV (one line per value) or JSON. Every figure also downloads on its own. More open data: datasets and API.

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