Where Robot Training Hiring Is Heading, Week by Week

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Titles supply the professions and languages; apply clicks play no part. 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.

Fixed panel

Only employers this site had already followed for a full week when the first counted week began. A newly added employer, or the old roles its board shows in its first days here, cannot pass for growth.

Open roles in a week

How many of the group's roles were listed, averaged over the week's days (counted at 00:00 UTC), at the panel's employers.

Change

Open roles in the latest full week set against the first, in percent. A group's change stands on its own only when its first-week open roles carry at least the weight of its family's average change, fitted on that family's own counts; smaller groups are tagged as small samples and left out of rankings.

New listing

A role seen for the first time during the window, at an employer this site was already following the week before. Whatever an employer has up in its first tracked week is back catalogue and does not count as new.

Pace

New listings per week over the four latest full weeks set against the four before (two against two in an edition month with four full weeks), in percent. It is shown once the earlier weeks hold the weight of the family's average pace, fitted on its own counts.

Appeared, disappeared, started, stopped

Appeared: none of the group's roles open on any day of the first week, at least one on average in the latest. Disappeared is the reverse. Started: no new listing before the latest weeks of the pace comparison, some inside them. Stopped is the reverse.

Profession and language

Named in the title, matched as whole words against the profession and language vocabularies. A title naming two counts for each.

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 twelve most recent full ISO weeks (Monday to Sunday, UTC), none earlier than the week of 14 Sep 2026. Edition: the full ISO weeks inside one calendar month.

Limits of this data

• Employers say little about which program a role serves, so a rising group is a hint of where robot learning is heading, not a statement by any company.
• A batch from one employer can move a group on its own; the growth tables say how many employers posted new roles in each group.
• 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.
• Most robot training titles name no profession or language, so those groups are small and their counts are floors.
• This dataset's boards were first read on 12 Sep 2026, so the weekly series starts with the week of 14 Sep 2026.

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 index spans the 12 most recent full weeks (none earlier than 14 Sep 2026, when this dataset's weekly series begins) and rolls forward each Monday. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

• Live page12 most recent full weeks
• 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 = {Where Robot Training Hiring Is Heading, Week by Week, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/where-robot-training-hiring-is-heading/2026-10}},
}

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