Robots and Equipment in Robot Training Work

Method and definitions

The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day. Robots and vehicles are read from every title and from full descriptions; equipment from the full descriptions of the roles whose job board publishes one. 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.

Robot or vehicle named

A role names a robot or vehicle when its title does, or, where the job board publishes a full description, when its description does, matched as whole words with the documented vocabulary (MACHINES): humanoids; robot arms and manipulation; delivery, warehouse and service robots; robots unspecified; cars and robotaxis; trucks; drones and aircraft; vessels; construction machines. A role naming several counts for each.

Equipment named

Control equipment (VR headsets, leader-follower rigs and data gloves, joysticks and game controllers), capture equipment (motion capture, head-mounted cameras and smart glasses, action and 360-degree cameras, smartphones), sensors (LiDAR) and operations equipment (tablets, laptops, forklifts), each a published pattern over the description.

Pay by robot or vehicle

The median hourly rate advertised by the roles naming it. A median needs 8 roles stating a rate, and is ranked only when those roles come from at least 2 employers; a median resting on one employer is shown, marked, and not ranked.

Open role

A role listed by a given day and still in its employer's feed that day.

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: the last 28 complete days, in UTC. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC.

What this data cannot tell you

• Employers that recruit without a public job board are not counted, and some data-collection programs enrol people through an app rather than a job listing.
• A listing is not a hire. Some employers keep evergreen roles open for months, and some post one listing per city or country.
• Many employers post one description per city, so a large employer's template weighs on every share read from descriptions.
• A description can name a robot, vehicle or piece of equipment the job does not use (a product line, a past project, a list of preferences): the figures count mentions.
• A pattern can miss a term written in an unusual way; nothing is inferred beyond what the text says.

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.

• Live dataLast 28 complete days, 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_robots_and_equipment_in_robot_training_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Robots and Equipment in Robot Training Work (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robots-and-equipment-in-robot-training}},
  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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