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Figure 1

Tasks robot training roles describe

What do robot training roles ask people to do?

Task	Share of roles read	Most often in
Annotate or label dataSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Collect robot training dataSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Work with riders, customers or the publicSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Demonstrate tasks for a robot to learnSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Drive test routesSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Evaluate or score robot performanceSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Fly drones or aircraftSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Do household or everyday physical tasksSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Inspect vehicles or equipmentSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Intervene or take over controlSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Monitor robots or autonomous vehiclesSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Review data qualitySmall sample	n/a	n/a
Record video of your own tasksSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Log issues and write reportsSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Reset, charge or maintain robotsSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Set up scenes, sensors or equipmentSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Teleoperate or remotely pilot a robotSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Test autonomy software and featuresSmall sample	n/a	n/a
Train or coach other operatorsSmall sample	n/a	n/a

Sample. 0 roles open on 9 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs), 0.0% of the 745 open roles.

A role mentions a task when its description contains one of the task's documented patterns, anywhere in the text: a mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.

A requirement counts like a duty ('experience with VR teleoperation' mentions teleoperating): the figure counts what the descriptions talk about.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Robot Trainers Do, live data.

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Figure 2

Tasks by kind of work

Which tasks does each kind of robot training work involve?

Task
Annotate or label data
Collect robot training data
Work with riders, customers or the public
Demonstrate tasks for a robot to learn
Drive test routes
Evaluate or score robot performance
Fly drones or aircraft
Do household or everyday physical tasks
Inspect vehicles or equipment
Intervene or take over control
Monitor robots or autonomous vehicles
Review data quality
Record video of your own tasks
Log issues and write reports
Reset, charge or maintain robots
Set up scenes, sensors or equipment
Teleoperate or remotely pilot a robot
Test autonomy software and features
Train or coach other operators

Sample. 0 roles open on 9 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs), 0.0% of the 745 open roles. Kinds of work with at least 10 roles read; each cell is the share of that kind's roles read that mention the task (roles read in the column header).

A role mentions a task when its description contains one of the task's documented patterns, anywhere in the text: a mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.

Every kind of work with a role read is shown.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Robot Trainers Do, live data.

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Figure 3

Advertised pay of roles mentioning each task

Which tasks come with the highest advertised pay?

Task	Median per hour	Middle half	Against all roles read
Annotate or label dataSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Collect robot training dataSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Work with riders, customers or the publicSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Demonstrate tasks for a robot to learnSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Drive test routesSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Evaluate or score robot performanceSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Fly drones or aircraftSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Do household or everyday physical tasksSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Inspect vehicles or equipmentSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Intervene or take over controlSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Monitor robots or autonomous vehiclesSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Review data qualitySmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Record video of your own tasksSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Log issues and write reportsSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Reset, charge or maintain robotsSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Set up scenes, sensors or equipmentSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Teleoperate or remotely pilot a robotSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Test autonomy software and featuresSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a
Train or coach other operatorsSmall sample	n/a	n/a	n/a

Sample. 0 roles open on 9 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs), 0.0% of the 745 open roles. 0 of the 0 roles read state an hourly rate.

A role mentions a task when its description contains one of the task's documented patterns, anywhere in the text: a mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.

Pay is the hourly figure the posting advertises (the middle of a stated range). Medians need 8 roles stating a rate from at least 2 employers; others are marked and listed after the ranked tasks. The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile; 1.00x is the median of all roles read.

A role mentioning several tasks counts in each, and tasks travel with kinds of work and seniority: a pay difference is an association, not the price of the task.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Robot Trainers Do, live data.

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Figure 4

Tasks by employer

How do the largest employers differ in the work they describe?

Task
Annotate or label data
Collect robot training data
Work with riders, customers or the public
Demonstrate tasks for a robot to learn
Drive test routes
Evaluate or score robot performance
Fly drones or aircraft
Do household or everyday physical tasks
Inspect vehicles or equipment
Intervene or take over control
Monitor robots or autonomous vehicles
Review data quality
Record video of your own tasks
Log issues and write reports
Reset, charge or maintain robots
Set up scenes, sensors or equipment
Teleoperate or remotely pilot a robot
Test autonomy software and features
Train or coach other operators

Sample. 0 roles open on 9 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs), 0.0% of the 745 open roles. The 0 employers with the most roles read; each cell is the share of the employer's open roles read that mention the task (roles read in the column header).

A role mentions a task when its description contains one of the task's documented patterns, anywhere in the text: a mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.

Listings only: a share of an employer's open roles, not of its hires or projects. Employers write descriptions to their own template, so a task one employer's template always names counts in every one of its roles.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Robot Trainers Do, live data.

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Figure 5

How many different tasks a role describes

Do robot training roles describe one task or a mix?

Distinct tasks mentioned	Roles	Share of roles read
No task named	0	n/a
1 task	0	n/a
2 tasks	0	n/a
3 tasks	0	n/a
4 tasks	0	n/a
5 tasks	0	n/a
6 or more tasks	0	n/a

Sample. 0 roles open on 9 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs), 0.0% of the 745 open roles.

A role mentions a task when its description contains one of the task's documented patterns, anywhere in the text: a mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.

Out of the 19 tasks in the taxonomy. A role naming none describes its work in words no pattern reads (a project overview, a list of requirements only).

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Robot Trainers Do, 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. Full descriptions are read for the roles whose feed publishes them. 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.

Mention: A description mentions a task when it contains one of the task's documented patterns (whole words, case-insensitive, never across two lines), anywhere in the text: the duties, the requirements or a note on the project. A mention is not necessarily the main task, and a role often mentions several.
Task: One of 19 activities a description can name, from teleoperating, demonstrating and collecting robot data, through recording first-person video, household tasks, annotating and reviewing data and evaluating robots, to testing autonomy software, monitoring, intervening, driving test routes, flying drones, inspecting, resetting and maintaining robots, setting up scenes, logging issues, training other operators and working with riders and customers. Each has a published pattern.
Pay by task: The median hourly rate advertised by the roles mentioning a task. A median needs 8 roles stating a rate, and is ranked only when they come from at least 2 employers; a median resting on one employer is shown, marked, and not ranked.
Coverage: Only roles whose job board publishes a full description are read; each figure states how many that is.
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 mention is not the main task, and a requirement counts like a duty ('experience with VR teleoperation' mentions teleoperating).
A pattern can miss a task phrased in an unusual way; nothing is inferred beyond what the text says. A pay difference between tasks is an association: tasks travel with kinds of work and seniority.

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.

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Citation

RobotTraining.jobs (2026). What Robot Trainers Do (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-robot-trainers-do (accessed 10 Oct 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{robottrainingjobs_what_robot_trainers_do_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {What Robot Trainers Do (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-robot-trainers-do}},
  note = {Accessed 10 Oct 2026},
}

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