What the data shows
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Instawork is the most documented of the 19 companies and programs (10 sourced facts).
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14 published pay rates and contract prices from 7 companies.
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The most recent fact on record (14 Oct 2026): NPR reports Objectways gathers egocentric data in Karur and appears to be one of the town's biggest white-collar employers, occupying at least four building blocks.
Figure 1
Robotics data collection companies in India
Which companies collect robot training data in India, what do they provide, how big are they and what do they pay?
Base: 19 companies and programs, 61 facts, each linked to the page that states it (reviewed 28 Oct 2026).
Company claims are marked stated; figures relayed by reporters are marked reported. Pay stays in the currency and unit its source gives.
Credit: compiled by RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays, checked 28 Oct 2026.
Figure 2
What recorders and data collectors in India are paid
How much do people in India earn recording or collecting robot training data?
Base: 14 facts from 7 companies and programs.
Pay stays in rupees or dollars, per hour or per month, as its source gives it.
Credit: compiled by RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays, checked 28 Oct 2026.
Figure 3
Clients, funding and ownership
Who buys India's robot training data, and who funds and owns the companies collecting it?
Base: 11 facts from 9 companies and programs.
Credit: compiled by RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays, checked 28 Oct 2026.
Figure 4
Consent and the rules that apply
Do workers consent to being recorded, and which Indian rules cover this work?
Base: 15 facts from 10 companies and programs.
Credit: compiled by RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays, checked 28 Oct 2026.
Figure 5
Every sourced fact
What exactly has been published about each company?
Base: All 61 facts. "Reported" means an outlet reports it from sources the company has not confirmed.
Amounts stay in the currency and form their source gives; nothing is converted or totalled.
Credit: compiled by RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays, checked 28 Oct 2026.
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Every role on 84 employer job boards, read each day since 12 Sep 2026: its pay, its place, and the first and last day it was up.
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Funding, revenue, deals, fleets, deployments and prices across the robot training industry, each record linked to the publication it comes from.
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How it was measured
Company pages and job postings, TechCrunch, NPR, AFP, CNBC, Scroll, Inc42, Medianama, The News Minute and Indian government releases, each linked with a verbatim quote kept in the dataset. Each row carries a link to its publication and gives the number exactly as published, with no estimates or conversions. A note under every figure says what it covers.
- Egocentric data
- First-person video recorded with a head-mounted camera while a person does a task, used to teach robots how people move and handle objects.
- Teleoperation as a service
- Trained operators who control robots remotely for a client, to record demonstrations or step in when a robot gets stuck.
Limits of this data
- Built only from public sources. Anything never announced or reported is absent, and private-company figures are whatever the company or the press said, unaudited.
- Scale and funding figures are mostly the companies' own claims; where a reporter could not verify one, the record says so.
- Pay is as published for one worker, program or posting, in its own currency and unit, and is not measured earnings.
Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.
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Citation
RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Robotics Data Collection Companies in India: Who Records Robot Training Data and What It Pays (live data, 7 Sep 2023 to 28 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-data-collection-companies-india (accessed 28 Oct 2026)
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