What the data shows

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Applicants from any country could go for 0.3% of the 1,150 roles live on 31 Oct 2026. Another 99.7% took only listed countries, and 0.0% shut out certain countries.
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Most people trying to apply were in the United States (111 people). The crowding differed widely: Pakistan had 12.67 people per open role it could apply to (38 people, 3 roles), against 0.16 in the United States.
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What people apply for differs by country: in Brazil, 17 of the 35 people who clicked apply went for egocentric & wearable capture, against 1 of 10 in Nigeria.
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The widest choice of open roles went to residents of the United States (700), Germany (78) and the United Kingdom (72). Someone living in a country that no posting mentions could still go for the 3 worldwide roles.
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The United States appeared on the list of 60.8% of country-restricted roles, and 94.9% of restricted roles took applicants from one country only.
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Where applicants can be based, per kind of work

In which kinds of robot training work can someone apply from any country?

Kind of work	Open worldwide	Except listed	Only listed countries	No rule	Open roles
All kinds of work	0.3%	0.0%	99.7%	0.0%	1,150
Data & Demonstration CollectionSmall sample	1.6%	0.0%	98.4%	0.0%	127
Robot TeleoperationSmall sample	1.2%	0.0%	98.8%	0.0%	82
AV & Drone Operators	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	544
Egocentric & Wearable CaptureSmall sample	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	134
Embodied-AI Data AnnotationSmall sample	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	17
Robot Fleet Operations	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	237
Robot Task Evaluation & QASmall sample	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	9

Base: 1,150 roles still open as 31 Oct 2026 closed.

Location rules come from each posting's location text, then from its own description when that text names no country. When a posting says nothing either way, the employer's own statement about where it hires is used.

A row with under 138.9 open roles carries a small-sample mark and is left unranked: under that count, the average across all rows says more than the row's own open roles do (a weight fitted on the counts themselves).

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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How many open roles each country's residents can go for

Residents of which countries have the widest choice of robot training roles, and at what pay?

Country	Open roles	Share of the whole market	Median per hour
Open to every country (worldwide or no rule given)	3	0.3%	n/a
United States	700	60.9%	$27
Germany	78	6.8%	$21
United Kingdom	72	6.3%	$21
Spain	67	5.8%	$21
Italy	65	5.7%	$21
Philippines	65	5.7%	$21
Australia	62	5.4%	$21
France	60	5.2%	$21
Netherlands	59	5.1%	$21
Brazil	56	4.9%	$21
Belgium	54	4.7%	$21
Sweden	52	4.5%	$21
Austria	49	4.3%	$21
Bulgaria	49	4.3%	$21
Poland	49	4.3%	$21
Portugal	49	4.3%	$21
Romania	49	4.3%	$21
Singapore	49	4.3%	$21
Finland	48	4.2%	$21
Croatia	48	4.2%	$21
Hungary	48	4.2%	$21
Czechia	47	4.1%	$21
Denmark	47	4.1%	$21
Estonia	47	4.1%	$21
Ireland	47	4.1%	$21
Luxembourg	47	4.1%	$21
Cyprus	46	4.0%	$21
Greece	46	4.0%	$21
Lithuania	46	4.0%	$21
Latvia	46	4.0%	$21
Slovenia	46	4.0%	$21
Slovakia	46	4.0%	$21
Malta	44	3.8%	$21
Canada	39	3.4%	$10
Japan	39	3.4%	n/a
Switzerland	27	2.3%	n/a
Indonesia	22	1.9%	$5
Malaysia	20	1.7%	$4
India	18	1.6%	$5
Mexico	18	1.6%	$7

Base: 1,150 roles still open as 31 Oct 2026 closed. Shown: the top 40 of the 99 countries that at least one posting names.

Each country's total adds three groups: worldwide roles (counting roles that give no rule, which the job board also treats as open to everyone), roles whose include list has it, and roles whose exclusion list leaves it out.

Median pay uses the priced roles open to that country, and needs 3 or more of them.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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Where the people applying are, against the roles open to them

From which countries do people try to apply for robot training jobs, and how many open roles accept them?

Country	People who clicked apply	Open roles they can apply to	People per open role
United States	111	700	0.2
India	53	18	2.9
Pakistan	38	3	12.7
Brazil	35	56	0.6
Kenya	11	3	3.7
Nigeria	10	3	3.3
Other countries	117	n/a	n/a

Base: 375 people clicked apply on RobotTraining.jobs between 1 Oct 2026 and 31 Oct 2026, counted once each however often they clicked; roles open on 31 Oct 2026.

People are distinct visitors whose visit came from that country (not their nationality), with automated traffic left out. Each counts once in the window.

A country is shown on its own from 10 people; the others are summed. Visitors see the roles open to their own country first, which steers where they apply.

Open roles they can apply to uses the same rule as the job board: roles open worldwide, roles that list the country, and roles that exclude other countries only.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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What the people applying from each country go for

Which kinds of robot training work do the people applying from each country click apply on?

Country	People who clicked apply	Demonstration Collection	Egocentric Capture	Data Annotation	AV & Drone
United States	111	36	22	7	26
India	53	13	12	9	3
Pakistan	38	15	4	4	0
Brazil	35	6	17	5	0
Kenya	11	4	3	5	0
Nigeria	10	3	1	3	0

Base: The same 375 people as the figure above, between 1 Oct 2026 and 31 Oct 2026.

Each cell counts the people from that country who clicked apply on at least one role of that kind of work. A person who applied to two kinds counts in both, and a click on an employer's own button names no kind, so a row's cells need not add up to its people.

The 4 kinds of work these countries' people applied for most are shown; the countries are those listed above (10 people or more).

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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Countries that appear on restricted roles' lists

When a posting takes applicants from certain countries only, which ones make the list?

Country	Limited roles naming it	Share of limited roles	Open only there
United States	697	60.8%	653
Germany	75	6.5%	34
United Kingdom	69	6.0%	27
Spain	64	5.6%	23
Italy	62	5.4%	21
Philippines	62	5.4%	15
Australia	59	5.1%	17
France	57	5.0%	16
Netherlands	56	4.9%	14
Brazil	53	4.6%	1
Belgium	51	4.4%	10
Sweden	49	4.3%	8
Austria	46	4.0%	5
Bulgaria	46	4.0%	5
Poland	46	4.0%	5
Portugal	46	4.0%	5
Romania	46	4.0%	5
Singapore	46	4.0%	4
Finland	45	3.9%	4
Croatia	45	3.9%	4
Hungary	45	3.9%	4
Czechia	44	3.8%	3
Denmark	44	3.8%	3
Estonia	44	3.8%	3
Ireland	44	3.8%	3

Base: 1,147 roles live on 31 Oct 2026 that restrict applicants to a list of countries, 1,088 of which name just one.

'Open only there' counts roles whose list contains this country and no other.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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Countries carved out of otherwise worldwide roles

Which countries get shut out of postings that welcome the rest of the world?

Nothing to show for this window.

Base: 0 roles live on 31 Oct 2026 that accept everyone apart from a list of excluded countries.

Exclusions mostly track payment and sanctions limits: places the employer cannot pay or contract with, rather than places it has no work for.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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How many countries a limited role accepts

Does a restricted role usually take one country or a whole region?

Countries accepted	Limited roles	Share
One country	1,088	94.9%
2 to 5 countries	7	0.6%
6 to 20 countries	9	0.8%
21 countries or more	43	3.7%

Base: 1,147 roles live on 31 Oct 2026 that restrict applicants to a list of countries.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition.

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@misc{robottrainingjobs_where_robot_training_work_is_open_2026_10,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Robot Training Jobs by Country: Who Can Apply, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/where-robot-training-work-is-open/2026-10}},
}

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