Requirements in Robot Training Job Postings

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Where a feed includes the full description, that text is read too. 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.

Required

Education, licences, a minimum age, a lifting limit, years of experience, a background check and training provided are read with lib/job-requirements.ts, the reader behind this site's job pages: clause by clause, ignoring anything named as a preference ('a CDL is a plus') or listed under a preferred-qualifications heading.

Mention

Weekly hours, drug tests, driving-record checks, road tests, assessments, interviews, working conditions, terms and tools count when the description contains one of the documented patterns for them (whole words, case-insensitive), wherever it says it.

Highest education

Each role counts once, at the highest education it requires: a degree with no alternative, a degree or equivalent experience, a high school diploma, current enrolment, or none.

Years and hours

The most years of work experience any requirement names (licensed driving years are counted apart), and the lower figure of a stated weekly range ('32 to 40 hours a week' is 32).

Coverage

Only roles with a full description on their job board are included, and each figure gives that count.

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.
• Oddly worded requirements can slip past the patterns. Nothing beyond the written text is assumed, so a requirement that is not mentioned counts as unknown rather than absent.

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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  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Requirements in Robot Training Job Postings, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-robot-training-roles-require/2026-10}},
}

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