Robots and Equipment in Robot Training Work

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. 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. A single database query produces each figure for the window shown, and the live page and every monthly edition run that identical query. The note under each figure gives its base.

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), sensors (LiDAR) and operations equipment (smartphones, tablets, laptops, forklifts), each a published pattern over the description. Smartphones sit with operations because most descriptions name one as a field device rather than as the capture rig.

Pay by robot or vehicle

The median hourly rate among roles that name it. It needs 3 roles with a stated rate, and it enters the ranking only if those roles span 3 or more employers; a median that rests on fewer employers is displayed with a mark but left unranked.

Open role

On a given day, a role that has been posted and still shows in the employer's feed.

Kind of work

A role's title and description place it in one of the seven kinds of robot training work this site follows, ranging from robot teleoperation and demonstration collection through egocentric capture, embodied-AI annotation, robot evaluation and fleet operations to AV and drone operation. Each kind has a page of its own.

Window

Live page: the 28 most recent full days (UTC). Edition: a single calendar month (UTC).

Limits of this data

• Hiring that happens off public job boards is invisible here, and some data-collection programs sign people up inside an app instead of posting a job.
• A posting does not equal a hire. Certain employers leave evergreen roles up for months, and others post the same role once per city or country.
• Large employers often reuse one description per city, so their template carries extra weight in any share drawn 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.
• Unusual spellings can slip past the patterns, and nothing is read into the text beyond what it says.

Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.

Monthly editions

The live page spans the 28 most recent full days and updates daily. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

• Live page28 most recent full days, rebuilt daily
• October 2026 edition (you are here)Will lock when the next daily refresh runs

Quoting this report

You may quote, chart or republish these figures under CC BY 4.0, provided you link back to this page. This edition is locked: its numbers will not change.

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