Key findings

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Between the week of 3 Aug 2026 and the week of 5 Oct 2026, open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data on the platforms tracked since 3 Aug 2026 rose from about 11 to a peak of 21 in the week of 7 Sep 2026, then fell to 14 (+30.7% over the 10 weeks, against +10.5% for all AI training work on the same platforms); platforms first tracked later, left out of this panel, listed about 23 more in the week of 5 Oct 2026.
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9 platforms listed the 65 open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data; Claru held 61.5% and the three largest 83.1% (HHI 4,092, highly concentrated, against 742 for all AI training work).
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59 of the 65 open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data (90.8%) stated an hourly rate, with a median of $10/hr (middle half $7 to $15), 85% below the $65/hr of all AI training work.
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Each open role in Robotics & Physical-AI Data drew 0.62 apply clicks a week on AITraining.jobs, 1.64x the average AI training role: the 5th highest of 12 kinds of work with enough clicks to rank.
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10.8% of the 65 open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data accepted applicants from any country, against 28.5% of all AI training roles; of the 20 countries compared, residents of the United States (25), then Colombia and India (20 each) could apply to the most, and residents of 8 of the countries (among them Bangladesh and Ghana) to the fewest (7 each).
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The words used most in the titles of open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data were Contributor or participant (10), Annotator or labeler (3) and Engineer or developer (1), of 65 open roles.
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Of the 49 open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data with a full description, none mention a PhD or master's degree, none a professional credential and none an assessment or test.
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Over the 28 days from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data on the platforms tracked at its start went down 58.1% (31 to 13): platforms listed 24 new roles and removed 43, and a removed role had been listed for a median of 27 days (33 across all AI training work).
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Open roles, week by week

Is the number of open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data rising or falling?

Week	Open roles (fixed panel)	Index	All AI training work (index)	All tracked platforms
3 to 9 Aug	11	100.0	100.0	11
10 to 16 Aug	11	102.7	102.1	11
17 to 23 Aug	14	134.7	107.3	14
24 to 30 Aug	17	158.7	108.6	17
31 Aug to 6 Sep	18	169.3	110.1	20
7 to 13 Sep	21	198.7	114.5	36
14 to 20 Sep	18	170.7	112.1	32
21 to 27 Sep	14	134.7	111.1	29
28 Sep to 4 Oct	13	121.3	109.7	29
5 to 11 Oct	14	130.7	110.5	37

Sample. Average open roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data over each week's days, on the 17 platforms tracked since 3 Aug 2026 (the fixed panel; 2 of them list this work), 3 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026.

The index is the panel's open roles against the week of 3 Aug 2026 (100), beside the same index for all AI training work on the same platforms.

OpenTrain AI (first tracked 5 Sep 2026), Welo Data (first tracked 8 Sep 2026), Perle Labs (first tracked 10 Oct 2026), RemoExperts (first tracked 10 Oct 2026) and Sovrano AI (first tracked 11 Oct 2026) list this work but were added to the dataset later, so they are left out of the panel and counted only in the last column: a platform's arrival never reads as growth.

Weeks with fewer than 10 open roles on the panel, or cut by the span, are marked.

The series starts in the week of 3 Aug 2026 at the earliest: before it, this dataset's feeds were still being added and tuned.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Listings added and removed

How fast do roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data turn over, and is the stock growing on the same platforms?

Work	Open on 20 Sep 2026	Open on 17 Oct 2026, same platforms	Change	New listings	Removed	Median days listed
Robotics & Physical-AI Data	31	13	-58.1%	24	43	27.4 days
All AI training work	2,595	2,690	+3.7%	2,252	2,181	32.7 days

Sample. Roles listed from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026: 108 in Robotics & Physical-AI Data, 5,849 across all AI training work.

Change compares the roles open on the first and the last day of the window on the platforms tracked when it opened, so a platform added during the window does not read as growth.

A new listing first appeared in the window on a platform already tracked before that week; a platform's first week (its back catalogue) is not counted.

Median days listed runs from a removed role's listing date to its last sighting, for removed roles with a known listing date (at least 10; 43 here).

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Who lists it

Which platforms list roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data, and what does each advertise?

Platform	Open roles	Share of open roles	Stating an hourly rate	Median per hour
Claru	40	61.5%	100.0%	$9
micro1	8	12.3%	100.0%	$14
RemoExperts	6	9.2%	100.0%	n/a
OneForma	4	6.2%	0.0%	n/a
Welo Data	3	4.6%	100.0%	n/a
Alignerr	1	1.5%	100.0%	n/a
Appen	1	1.5%	100.0%	n/a
Perle Labs	1	1.5%	0.0%	n/a
Sovrano AI	1	1.5%	0.0%	n/a

Sample. 65 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open at the end of 17 Oct 2026, by the platform that lists them: HHI 4,092 (highly concentrated), against 742 for all AI training work.

HHI: the sum of every platform's squared percentage share of the open roles, 0 to 10,000; under 1,500 is unconcentrated, 1,500 to 2,500 moderately and above 2,500 highly concentrated (US merger-guideline thresholds).

Shares are of listings, not of people hired or money paid: a platform posting one role per language or country weighs more here than its hiring may.

A median needs at least 8 roles stating an hourly rate.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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What it pays

What do roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data advertise per hour, against AI training work as a whole?

Work	Median per hour	25th percentile	75th percentile	Stating an hourly rate	Roles stating pay
Robotics & Physical-AI Data	$10	$7	$15	90.8%	59
All AI training work	$65	$36	$85	82.6%	3,031

Sample. Roles open on 17 Oct 2026: 65 in Robotics & Physical-AI Data, 59 of them stating an hourly rate; 3,668 across all AI training work.

Pay is the hourly figure the posting advertises (the middle of a stated range). The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.

Roles paid per task or per project, or that state no figure, do not state an hourly rate. A median needs at least 8 roles stating one.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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How its rates are distributed

What share of roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data pay $50 an hour or more?

Advertised rate	Open roles	Share of priced roles	This rate or less	All AI training work
Under $15/hr	38	64.4%	64.4%	5.7%
$15 to $25/hr	13	22.0%	86.4%	8.2%
$25 to $35/hr	0	0.0%	86.4%	9.2%
$35 to $50/hr	2	3.4%	89.8%	16.4%
$50 to $75/hr	0	0.0%	89.8%	25.4%
$75 to $100/hr	1	1.7%	91.5%	14.4%
$100 to $150/hr	5	8.5%	100.0%	16.8%
$150/hr or more	0	0.0%	100.0%	3.9%

Sample. 59 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open on 17 Oct 2026 that state an hourly rate, against 3,031 across all AI training work.

Each role counts once, at the middle of its advertised range. The bands are those of the pay-transparency report.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Applicant demand per open role

Do roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data draw more or fewer applicants per opening than the average AI training role?

Roles	Clicks per role a week	Index	Clicks	Avg open roles
Robotics & Physical-AI Data	0.62	1.64x	89	36
All AI training work	0.38	1.00x	4,308	2,851
Its roles stating an hourly rate	0.43	1.13x	59	34
Its roles stating no hourly rateSmall sample	5.30	14.02x	30	1
Its roles open worldwide	1.54	4.07x	48	8
Its roles limited by country	0.37	0.97x	41	28

Sample. Apply clicks on a specific role on AITraining.jobs, from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026: 89 on roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data, against the days those roles were open.

Clicks per role a week = apply clicks / (open role-days / 7). Index 1.00 is the rate of every role on the site.

Rows with fewer than 30 clicks or 3 roles open on an average day are marked as a small sample.

Apply clicks measure interest among visitors to AITraining.jobs, who see roles open in their country and recent, priced roles first. Clicks are never split by platform.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Applicant demand by listing age

Do newer roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data draw more applicants than older ones?

Listing age	Clicks per role a week	Index (this work = 1)	Clicks	Avg open roles
Listed during the window	1.56	2.51x	37	6
Listed up to 4 weeks before itSmall sample	0.32	0.52x	13	10
Listed 4 to 12 weeks before it	0.71	1.14x	39	14
Listed more than 12 weeks before itSmall sample	0.00	0.00x	0	6

Sample. Apply clicks on roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data, from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, by when each role was listed relative to the window's first day (20 Sep 2026).

Listing date: the date the job board gives for the posting, or else the first day the role appeared in the feed. A role that arrived with a platform's back catalogue and gives no date has none.

The index divides each row's rate by the rate of all roles in this kind of work, so it reads within the kind.

Rows with fewer than 30 clicks or 3 roles open on an average day are marked as a small sample.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Who may apply: location rules

Can people apply to roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data from anywhere?

Location rule	Open roles	Share of its open roles	All AI training work
Open worldwide	7	10.8%	28.5%
Worldwide except listed countries	0	0.0%	9.3%
Only listed countries	58	89.2%	61.9%
No rule stated	0	0.0%	0.4%

Sample. 65 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open at the end of 17 Oct 2026, against 3,668 across all AI training work.

The rule is read from each posting's location text, then, where that names no country, from what the posting's own description states, and where both are silent from what the platform states about where it hires.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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Who may apply: roles open to each country

How many roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data can a resident of each country apply to?

Country	Open roles	Share of its open roles	Median per hour
Any country (worldwide roles only)	7	10.8%	n/a
United States	25	38.5%	$15
Colombia	20	30.8%	$7
India	20	30.8%	$5
Argentina	19	29.2%	$7
Brazil	19	29.2%	$7
Chile	19	29.2%	$7
Philippines	19	29.2%	$5
Indonesia	18	27.7%	$5
Egypt	11	16.9%	$15
Germany	8	12.3%	n/a
United Kingdom	8	12.3%	n/a
Japan	8	12.3%	n/a
Bangladesh	7	10.8%	n/a
Ghana	7	10.8%	n/a
Cambodia	7	10.8%	n/a
South Korea	7	10.8%	n/a
Nigeria	7	10.8%	n/a
Pakistan	7	10.8%	n/a
Palestine	7	10.8%	n/a
Saudi Arabia	7	10.8%	n/a

Sample. 65 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open at the end of 17 Oct 2026, for residents of a fixed set of 20 countries.

A country's count is the roles open worldwide (including roles that state no rule, as on the job board), plus roles whose list names it, plus roles whose exclusion list does not.

The 20 countries are the same in every report of this series: those named most often by the location rules of open AI training roles on 9 Oct 2026, either as the only countries accepted or as excluded.

Median pay is over the roles open to that country that state an hourly rate (at least 8).

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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What the roles are called

What are roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data called: annotator, evaluator, expert or trainer?

Title word	Open roles	Share of its open roles	Median per hour	Platforms
Contributor or participant	10	15.4%	$103	5
Annotator or labeler	3	4.6%	n/a	2
Engineer or developer	1	1.5%	n/a	1
Expert or SME	1	1.5%	n/a	1
Writer or editor	1	1.5%	n/a	1

Sample. 15 of the 65 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open on 17 Oct 2026 name one of these words in their title (23.1%); 5 title words are named.

A title can use several of these words ('Expert AI Trainer') and counts for each. The vocabularies are those of the job-titles, languages and expert-fields reports.

Median pay needs at least 8 roles stating an hourly rate.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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What the descriptions ask for

Do roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data ask for degrees, credentials, experience or tests?

Requirement	Roles	Share of described roles	All described roles
Mentions a PhD	0	0.0%	17.5%
Mentions a PhD or master's	0	0.0%	25.5%
Mentions any degree	0	0.0%	37.8%
Mentions a professional credential	0	0.0%	10.5%
States years of experience	0	0.0%	25.8%
Asks for 5 years or more	0	0.0%	7.5%
States weekly hours	1	2.0%	23.4%
Mentions an assessment or test	0	0.0%	14.7%
Mentions an AI-led or video interview	0	0.0%	4.5%
Mentions a background check	0	0.0%	0.2%

Sample. 49 roles in Robotics & Physical-AI Data open on 17 Oct 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (Appen, Claru, micro1, OneForma, Perle Labs, RemoExperts, Sovrano AI and Welo Data), 75.4% of its open roles; 3,260 described roles across all AI training work.

A mention can be a requirement or a preference ('a PhD is a plus'): the figure counts both. The patterns are those of the requirements report.

Only some platforms publish full descriptions, so this figure describes their roles, not every platform's.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work, live data.

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@misc{aitrainingjobs_robotics_physical_ai_data_market_live,
  author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
  title = {The Market for Robotics & Physical-AI Data Work (live data, 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://aitraining.run/research/robotics-physical-ai-data-market}},
  note = {Accessed 18 Oct 2026},
}

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