{"name":"What Robot Trainers Do (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)","question":"What tasks does robot training work involve: teleoperating, demonstrating, recording, labelling, monitoring, intervening?","source":"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.","publisher":"RobotTraining.jobs","url":"https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-robot-trainers-do","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","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)","frozen_at":null,"report":"what-robot-trainers-do","method":1,"edition":null,"window":{"from":"2026-09-12","to":"2026-10-09","days":28},"computedAt":"2026-10-10T21:13:49.533Z","summary":"No full role descriptions were available on 9 Oct 2026.","stats":[{"id":"roles-read","value":"0","label":"open roles with a full description read (0% of open roles)","figure":"tasks-mentioned"}],"findings":[],"figures":[{"id":"tasks-mentioned","title":"Tasks robot training roles describe","question":"What do robot training roles ask people to do?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Task","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles mentioning it","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share of roles read","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"kind","label":"Most often 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Employers write descriptions to their own template, so a task one employer's template always names counts in every one of its roles."]},{"id":"tasks-per-role","title":"How many different tasks a role describes","question":"Do robot training roles describe one task or a mix?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Distinct tasks mentioned","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share of roles read","unit":"percent","bar":true}],"rows":[{"key":"0","cells":{"group":"No task named","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"1","cells":{"group":"1 task","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"2","cells":{"group":"2 tasks","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"3","cells":{"group":"3 tasks","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"4","cells":{"group":"4 tasks","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"5","cells":{"group":"5 tasks","roles":0,"share":null}},{"key":"6-plus","cells":{"group":"6 or more tasks","roles":0,"share":null}}],"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.","notes":["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)."]}]}