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On-Site Robot Training Work

On 9 Oct 2026, 78.0% of 745 open robot training roles had to be done on-site or hybrid, 5.6% were remote and 16.4% did not say; the largest group of on-site roles was autonomous vehicle and truck operation, and most were in the United States, Japan and Germany.

Data window
12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026
28 days, UTC
Computed
10 Oct 2026, 21:13 UTC
Recomputed every day
Source
The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day: each open role's title, its location text and the workplace field its board publishes.
Method
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of open roles are on-site or hybrid
78%
on-site or hybrid roles open
581
of on-site roles are in the United States
40%
new on-site listings in the window
38

Key findings

  1. 1

    78.0% of the 745 robot training roles open on 9 Oct 2026 (581) must be done on-site or hybrid; 5.6% are remote and 16.4% do not say.

    Figure 1
  2. 2

    122 open roles state no arrangement in their title, location or workplace field, 35.2% of them at Avride, so the remote share is a floor.

    Figure 2
  3. 3

    AV & Drone Operators has the largest on-site share of any kind of work with at least 10 open roles (86.9%, 305 roles); 7 kinds of work have any on-site roles at all.

    Figure 1
  4. 4

    35 employers list on-site roles; TSMG lists the most (474, 81.6% of all on-site roles).

    Figure 2
  5. 5

    On-site roles are open in 49 countries; the United States has the most (230, 39.6%), and the place named most is the San Francisco Bay Area (40 roles).

    Figure 3
  6. 6

    Read from their titles, the largest groups of on-site roles are autonomous vehicle and truck operation (297 roles, 51.1%) and robot data collection (147, 25.3%).

    Figure 5

Figure 1

On-site, remote or not stated, by kind of work

Which kinds of robot training work have to be done at a site rather than from home?

Kind of workOn-site or hybridRemoteNot stated
All kinds of work
78.0%
5.6%16.4%
AV & Drone Operators
86.9%
0.3%12.8%
Data & Demonstration Collection
85.7%
6.3%7.9%
Robot Teleoperation
80.2%
0.0%19.8%
Egocentric & Wearable Capture
77.6%
22.4%0.0%
Robot Fleet Operations
52.5%
0.0%47.5%
Embodied-AI Data Annotation
20.0%
40.0%40.0%
Robot Task Evaluation & QA
18.2%
45.5%36.4%

Sample. 745 roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026; 581 on-site or hybrid.

On-site or hybrid: the title or location names a site ('Onsite', 'On-site London', 'In-person', 'Hybrid'), or a job board that publishes a workplace field (Lever, Ashby) marks the role not remote. Remote: the title or location says remote, or the board flags the role remote. 'Remote' that names the work ('Remote Driver', 'Remote Assistance Operator') says how a robot or vehicle is controlled, not where the worker sits, and is not read as remote.

Not stated: neither the title, the location nor a workplace field says how the work is done. Most robot training roles are tied to a lab, a depot or a test route, but a missing word is not read as on-site, so both the on-site and the remote shares are floors, not estimates of the rest.

Hybrid roles are counted with on-site ones: the listing fields do not separate them.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 2

On-site, remote or not stated, by employer

Which employers list robot training work that has to be done in person?

EmployerOn-site or hybridRemoteNot stated
TSMG
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Serve Robotics
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Aurora Innovation
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Dyna RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
WaabiSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
ISEESmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
SaronicSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Collaborative RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Genesis AISmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
WayveSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
DexmateSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
FS StudioSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
SereactSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Shield AISmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
micro1
10.0%
80.0%10.0%
PykaSmall sample
66.7%
33.3%0.0%
Sunday RoboticsSmall sample
66.7%
33.3%0.0%
1X TechnologiesSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Cota RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
HumanoidSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
May MobilitySmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
MonumentalSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Rhoda AISmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Tutor IntelligenceSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
NuroSmall sample
16.7%
0.0%83.3%
AdexisSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Agility RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
AppenSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Generalist AISmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Havoc AISmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Mind RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Physical IntelligenceSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Reliable RoboticsSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
SkydioSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
SkywaysSmall sample
100.0%
0.0%0.0%
Avride
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Claru
0.0%
100.0%0.0%
Gatik
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
WaymoSmall sample
0.0%
55.6%44.4%
Figure AISmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
ZiplineSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Anduril IndustriesSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Kodiak AISmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Skild AISmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Nimble RoboticsSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
PerleSmall sample
0.0%
100.0%0.0%
Stack AVSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Bot AutoSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Keywords StudiosSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
NerosSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
RoboForceSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
VaySmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Allen Control SystemsSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
DexorySmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Maven RoboticsSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
MotionalSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
ProntoSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
SamaSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
Torc RoboticsSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%
WingSmall sample
0.0%
0.0%100.0%

Sample. 745 roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026, by the employer that lists them (listings, not hires).

On-site or hybrid: the title or location names a site ('Onsite', 'On-site London', 'In-person', 'Hybrid'), or a job board that publishes a workplace field (Lever, Ashby) marks the role not remote. Remote: the title or location says remote, or the board flags the role remote. 'Remote' that names the work ('Remote Driver', 'Remote Assistance Operator') says how a robot or vehicle is controlled, not where the worker sits, and is not read as remote.

Not stated: neither the title, the location nor a workplace field says how the work is done. Most robot training roles are tied to a lab, a depot or a test route, but a missing word is not read as on-site, so both the on-site and the remote shares are floors, not estimates of the rest.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 3

Where on-site robot training roles are, by country

In which countries is in-person robot training work open?

CountryOn-site rolesShare of on-site roles
United States
230
39.6%
Japan
33
5.7%
Germany
30
5.2%
Canada
26
4.5%
Switzerland
23
4.0%
Spain
20
3.4%
Italy
19
3.3%
United Kingdom
16
2.8%
Philippines
14
2.4%
France
13
2.2%
Netherlands
13
2.2%
Indonesia
12
2.1%
Malaysia
12
2.1%
Australia
10
1.7%
Belgium
10
1.7%
Thailand
8
1.4%
Sweden
7
1.2%
Vietnam
7
1.2%
Norway
6
1.0%
Austria
5
0.9%
Cambodia
5
0.9%
Poland
5
0.9%
Finland
4
0.7%
Bulgaria
3
0.5%
Denmark
3
0.5%
Estonia
3
0.5%
Luxembourg
3
0.5%
Portugal
3
0.5%
Romania
3
0.5%
Chile
2
0.3%
Cyprus
2
0.3%
Greece
2
0.3%
Croatia
2
0.3%
Hungary
2
0.3%
Ireland
2
0.3%
Lithuania
2
0.3%
Latvia
2
0.3%
New Zealand
2
0.3%
Saudi Arabia
2
0.3%
Singapore
2
0.3%
Slovenia
2
0.3%
Slovakia
2
0.3%
United Arab Emirates
1
0.2%
Colombia
1
0.2%
Czechia
1
0.2%
Ecuador
1
0.2%
Peru
1
0.2%
Ukraine
1
0.2%
South Africa
1
0.2%
Not stated
3
0.5%

Sample. 581 on-site or hybrid roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026, by the country their location names.

Read from the location text the posting publishes. A role open at sites in two countries counts once in each, so shares can add up to more than 100%.

A city's country is taken from the location itself (the country or US state beside it, or the one country its list names). Two capital letters after a city are read as a US state. A city that cannot be matched is listed with no country.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 4

Cities with on-site robot training roles

Which cities have the most in-person robot training work?

City or metro areaCountryOn-site rolesNaming only this city
San Francisco Bay AreaUnited States
40
38
DallasUnited States
16
16
LondonUnited Kingdom
12
11
AustinUnited States
11
11
AtlantaUnited States
10
9
Los AngelesUnited States
9
9
MunichGermany
9
9
ParisFrance
9
9
TokyoJapan
8
5
AmsterdamNetherlands
7
7
BarcelonaSpain
7
7
BerlinGermany
7
7
PittsburghUnited States
7
7
StockholmSweden
7
7
BrusselsBelgium
6
6
Customer SiteUnited States
6
6
HoustonUnited States
6
6
MadridSpain
6
6
MiamiUnited States
6
6
PhoenixUnited States
6
6
StuttgartGermany
6
6
BernSwitzerland
5
5
ColumbusUnited States
5
5
GenevaSwitzerland
5
5
NashvilleUnited States
5
5

Sample. 574 of the 581 on-site roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026 name a city; the 25 cities named most.

A role that may be worked at any of several sites counts once in each city, so 'Naming only this city' counts the roles tied to that city alone.

Cities of one metropolitan area are merged: Sunnyvale, Burlingame, Santa Clara and San Francisco count as the San Francisco Bay Area; Redmond and Bellevue as the Seattle area; Brooklyn as New York City.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 5

What on-site robot training roles are

What do the robot training roles that must be done in person involve?

Work, read from the titleOn-site rolesShare of on-site roles
Autonomous vehicle and truck operation (safety drivers, test operators)297
51.1%
Robot data collection and demonstrations147
25.3%
Robot service, field and fleet operations53
9.1%
Robot teleoperation and piloting47
8.1%
Other14
2.4%
Drone and flight operations12
2.1%
Robot operation (other)9
1.5%
Robot testing, evaluation and QA2
0.3%

Sample. 581 on-site or hybrid roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026.

Each role counts once, in the first group whose words its title contains, in the order listed in the method (vehicles first, then drones and flight, teleoperation, data collection, service and fleet work, testing, other robot operation).

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 6

Advertised pay of on-site and remote roles, within each kind of work

Does in-person robot training work advertise more than remote work of the same kind?

Kind of workOn-site median (per hour)Remote median (per hour)On-site against remote
AV & Drone OperatorsSmall sample
$35
n/an/a
Robot Fleet OperationsSmall sample
$22
n/an/a
Data & Demonstration CollectionSmall sample
$28
n/an/a
Robot TeleoperationSmall sample
$26
n/an/a
Egocentric & Wearable CaptureSmall sample
n/a
$10n/a
Embodied-AI Data AnnotationSmall sample
n/a
n/an/a
Robot Task Evaluation & QASmall sample
n/a
n/an/a

Sample. Roles open at the end of 9 Oct 2026 that state an hourly rate, in the kinds of work with on-site roles.

Medians need at least 8 roles stating a rate on each side; the comparison is made within each kind of work so the mix of work is not read as a premium.

On-site roles advertising an annual salary, a fee per session or no figure are not in the medians.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Figure 7

On-site roles over the window, like for like

Is in-person robot training work growing or shrinking?

Work arrangementOpen on 12 Sep 2026Open on 9 Oct 2026Change
On-site or hybridSmall sample00
n/a
RemoteSmall sample00
n/a
Not statedSmall sample00
n/a
All rolesSmall sample00
n/a

Sample. Roles open at the start of 12 Sep 2026 and at the end of 9 Oct 2026 on the employers tracked throughout; new listings over the whole window.

Open counts compare only employers tracked before the window opened, so an employer added during it does not read as growth.

New listings: roles first seen in the window on an employer already tracked before that week (an employer's first week is its back catalogue).

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, On-Site Robot Training Work, live data.

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Method and definitions

The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day: each open role's title, its location text and the workplace field its board publishes. 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.

On-site or hybrid
The role must be done at a named place at least part of the week: its title or location says so ('Onsite', 'On-site London', 'In-person', 'Hybrid'), or a job board that publishes a workplace field of its own (Lever, Ashby) marks it not remote. Hybrid roles are counted here because the listing fields do not separate them from on-site ones.
Remote
The role's title or location says remote (or work from home, worldwide), or its board flags it remote. 'Remote' that names the work ('Remote Driver', 'Remote Assistance Operator') says how a robot or vehicle is controlled, not where the worker sits, and is not read as remote.
Not stated
Neither the title, the location nor a workplace field says how the work is done. A missing word is not read as on-site.
City or metro area
Read from the location text: a city's country is the country or US state beside it, or the one country its list names, never guessed. Cities of one metropolitan area are merged. A role open at several sites counts once in each.
Work, read from the title
Each on-site role falls in the first of these groups whose words its title contains: autonomous vehicle and truck operation; drone and flight operations; robot teleoperation; robot data collection and demonstrations; robot service, field and fleet operations; robot testing, evaluation and QA; other robot operation; other.
Advertised pay
The hourly figure a posting states (the middle of a stated range), compared within each kind of work. Medians need at least 8 roles stating a rate on each side.
New listing
A role that first appeared during the window at an employer already tracked before that week. An employer's first week in this dataset is its back catalogue and is not counted as new.
Open role
A role listed by a given day and still in its employer's feed that day.
Window
Live: the last 28 complete days, in UTC. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC.

What this data cannot tell you

  • Both shares are floors: a role that requires on-site sessions may say so only in its description.
  • Hybrid and fully on-site roles cannot be told apart from the listing fields.
  • Location text says where a role is worked or where its applicants must live, and the two are not always distinguishable; two capital letters after a city are read as a US state.
  • Employers that recruit without a public job board are not counted.
  • A listing is not a hire, and some employers post one listing per city or site, which weighs a city with many such listings more.

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 covers the last 28 complete days 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.

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Citation

RobotTraining.jobs (2026). On-Site Robot Training Work (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/on-site-robot-training-work (accessed 10 Oct 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{robottrainingjobs_on_site_robot_training_work_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {On-Site Robot Training Work (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/on-site-robot-training-work}},
  note = {Accessed 10 Oct 2026},
}

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