Kinds of data

Physical-world data

Recordings of physical work for robots: first-person video, teleoperation, motion capture, machine and sensor logs.

Public price: $4.48 to $25
per hour of video
Demand: Split
Who buys: Humanoid and robot foundation-model companies, collection vendors

The market rate for physical-world data, by side

The median where three or more figures exist, otherwise the figures we hold. Each side is a different point in the market: what the people who make it are paid, what holders are offered, what catalogues ask, what was paid.

Paid to the people who make it

$20

per hour of work, median of 33 figures; middle half $8.37 to $32

Paid to the people who make it

$14

per hour of video, median of 14 figures; middle half $6.00 to $17

Sales that happened

$0.58 to $2.59

per hour of video, from 2 figures

Asking prices off the shelf

$8.88

per hour of video, median of 16 figures; middle half $4.48 to $25

Asking prices off the shelf

$0.66

per record, median of 6 figures; middle half $0.19 to $1.17

Asking prices off the shelf

$0.005

per image, from 1 figure

Asking prices off the shelf

$101

per demonstration, from 1 figure

Made to order

$38

per hour of video, median of 20 figures; middle half $15 to $59

Made to order

$13

per demonstration, median of 14 figures; middle half $7.42 to $70

Made to order

$94

per hour of work, median of 4 figures; middle half $75 to $102

Made to order

$100

per record, from 1 figure

Cost to produce

$127

per hour of video, median of 4 figures; middle half $93 to $187

Cost to produce

$6.88

per demonstration, median of 4 figures; middle half $2.96 to $13

Cost to produce

$16 to $26

per hour of work, from 2 figures

Cost to produce

$16

per record, from 1 figure

What physical-world data has sold or been offered for

The whole price board

Public prices for physical-world data
What was sold or offered	Price	When	What to know	Source
AI-detected driving event clip with video and sensor data (Bee Maps AI Event Videos API)	$6/ video per event video	Oct 2026	List price per clip of a detected driving event (the edge cases driving models are trained on); clip length is not stated, so no per-hour figure.	Bee Maps, Pricing A catalogue or marketplace listing
Machine-detected road features (signs, lane lines and the like) from dashcam imagery (Bee Maps Road Detections)	$3/ 1K detections per 1,000 detections	Oct 2026	Derived map data rather than raw driving footage; consumption pricing.	Bee Maps, Pricing A catalogue or marketplace listing
Street-level dashcam image from the Bee Maps (Hivemapper) network, queried by location with timestamp and GPS	$0.005/ image per image	Oct 2026	Consumption-based list price with no upfront commitment; imagery comes from a crowd of drivers with Bee dashcams.	Bee Maps, Pricing A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online crowd animation pack, 108 optical motion-capture animations	$34.99 per pack of 108 animations	Oct 2026	A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.	MoCap Online, crowd pack A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online ladder animation pack, 198 optical motion-capture animations	$29.99 per pack of 198 animations	Oct 2026	A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.	MoCap Online, ladder pack A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online walk animation pack, 30 optical motion-capture animations	$29.99 per pack of 30 animations	Oct 2026	A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.	MoCap Online, walk pack A catalogue or marketplace listing
Bimanual Manipulation Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)	Bimanual Manipulation Pack: From $5,000 per dataset licence (starting price)	Oct 2026	Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A catalogue or marketplace listing
Humanoid or dexterous full-body teleoperation episode, whole-body policy training (Robotics Center custom collection)	$5 - $15 per episode per episode	Oct 2026	Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A vendor's published price guide
Long-horizon, bimanual or contact-rich teleoperation episode, production policy fine-tuning (Robotics Center custom collection)	$3 - $5 per episode per episode	Oct 2026	Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A vendor's published price guide
Mid-complexity manipulation teleoperation episode (15 to 30 seconds), standard imitation learning (Robotics Center custom collection)	$1 - $3 per episode per episode	Oct 2026	Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A vendor's published price guide
Teleoperation task episode on a novel embodiment (robot shipped in by the customer), bespoke R&D collection (Robotics Center)	$500 per task episode per task episode	Oct 2026	The price when the vendor must learn the customer's own robot: about 30 to 1,000 times its per-episode price on its own rigs. The page headlines custom collection as from $500 per task episode.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A vendor's published price guide
Simple pick-and-place teleoperation episode (about 5 seconds), for VLA pretraining volume (Robotics Center custom collection)	$0.50 - $1 per episode per episode	Oct 2026	Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A vendor's published price guide
Dexterous Grasping Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)	Dexterous Grasping Pack: From $5,000 per dataset licence (starting price)	Oct 2026	Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A catalogue or marketplace listing
Humanoid Locomotion Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)	Humanoid Locomotion Pack: From $10,000 per dataset licence (starting price)	Oct 2026	Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A catalogue or marketplace listing
VLA Evaluation Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)	VLA Evaluation Pack: From $3,000 per dataset licence (starting price)	Oct 2026	Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.	Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection A catalogue or marketplace listing
Full day in Teesside University's VR motion-capture studio (18 infra-red cameras, up to six suits), motion-capture control with technical support	Full day: £600 per one-day session	Oct 2026	A university facility's published hire rate; half day GBP 350, weekend GBP 750, data clean-up extra. At the bottom of the commercial range.	Teesside University, VR motion capture studio (business facilities) The payer's own page
Egocentric video from people wearing cameras in everyday activities (Claru's cost figure)	$10-30 per hour per hour	Oct 2026	Production cost: participant pay plus equipment amortisation, before margin and annotation.	Claru, How to collect egocentric video data (2026 guide) A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric video sample pack, 10 to 15 clips with basic metadata	$500–$2,000 for 10–15 clips per sample pack of 10 to 15 clips	Oct 2026	Entry price for a custom or archive egocentric pack. Full dataset pricing is on request, and annotated packs cost more depending on layers.	Claru, Egocentric Video Data for Physical AI A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperation data (Claru's market figure)	$50-200 per hour of operator time per hour of operator time	Oct 2026	Undated 2026 guide from a vendor that sells egocentric video, which has a reason to stress teleop's cost; hardware wear and a fixed site come on top.	Claru, How to collect egocentric video data (2026 guide) A vendor's published price guide
Robot 'Mirror Suit' robotics and vision imagery, 425 assets (BWS on Datarade)	$3,000 discounted to $2,850 / purchase per dataset of 425 assets	Oct 2026	A small fixed-price set, about $6.71 per asset at the sale price ($2,850 / 425).	Datarade, Robotics Data category (BWS listing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Real-world egocentric POV human task video dataset for physical AI and robotics (M-ART on Datarade)	Starts at $10,000 / purchase per purchase (minimum)	Oct 2026	Size not stated on the card; product page was rate-limited when read.	Datarade, Robotics Data category (M-ART listing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Embodied AI data collection and annotation service for robots (Nexdata on Datarade)	Starts at $10,000 / purchase per engagement (minimum)	Oct 2026	Minimum order for custom collection; the scope that $10,000 buys is not stated.	Datarade, Robotics Data category (Nexdata listing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Data collection operator using UMI, GELLO and VR teleoperation tools (RoboForce, Milpitas, swing shift)	USD $30.00 - 35.00 per hour per hour	Oct 2026	Contractor; the page said posted 30 to 60+ days before reading. Duties include object manipulation and walking set routes.	Dice, RoboForce: Data Collection Operator- AI Robotics (Swing Shift) The payer's own page
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, 4,050 hours of first-person household video with 3D pose and IMU (Pico + Zed + motion trackers)	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 4,050 hours (one-off purchase)	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged; its per-scenario hours add up to 3,600, not 4,050. It bundles the 2,321 h and 1,729 h setups, each listed separately at the same floor.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, 4,050 Hours of First-Person Videos A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, Pico + Motion Trackers setup, 2,321 hours of first-person household manipulation (13 scenarios) with IMU	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 2,321 hours (one-off purchase)	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Volume fields read 2.32K and 2,320 hours.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, Pico + Motion Trackers Setup (2,321 hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, Zed stereo + Pico + motion trackers setup, 1,729 hours of multimodal first-person household recordings	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 1,729 hours (one-off purchase)	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. The same $30,000 floor as the 2,321 h and 4,050 h sets, so per-hour falls as size grows.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, Zed + Pico + Motion Trackers Setup (1,729 hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Ordinary monocular raw (first-person) robot training video sold in China, actual transaction price per hour	每小时15元至20元 per hour of data	Oct 2026	Realised prices given by a collector to Caijing; he says collector wages alone exceed single digits an hour, so the lowest prices are not organised collection. Prices mix sources and delivery terms.	ifeng Tech, citing Caijing: 机器人训练数据被曝反复转卖 Press report
Robot training video of unknown origin (resold) in China, transaction price per hour	每小时3元至5元 per hour of data	Oct 2026	The floor of a market where data is resold repeatedly; about a fifth of the price of raw data with a known source.	ifeng Tech, citing Caijing: 机器人训练数据被曝反复转卖 Press report
Infobay.AI 5K+ Hours Stereo IMU Egocentric Dataset, stereo video with synchronized IMU	$135,700 per dataset of 5K+ hours	Oct 2026	The seller says the final price depends on requirements, and the page's 'Considerations' section says the dataset contains only sample data. The licence is shown as CC BY 4.0.	Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 5K+ Hours Stereo IMU Egocentric Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Car-mounted 360-degree exterior driving video (trailing third-person view of turns, stops, intersections, parking), recorded by contributors in 52 countries	$15 to $20 USD per hour for approved video work per hour of approved video	Oct 2026	Contributors supply their own 360 camera and car and are paid only for approved footage; the same rate as micro1's car-mounted posting, likely the same end client.	OpenTrain AI, Car-Mounted 360-Degree Vehicle Navigation Video Recorder The payer's own page
Proposed common hourly rate for people who collect robot-training video in India (industry body)	$7-10 an hour per hour	Oct 2026	Proposed, not yet agreed; up to 10 times the roughly $1 an hour Human Archive pays today.	StartupFeed, Indian physical AI startups weigh $7-10 hourly data pay Press report
Mobile egocentric video dataset, chest or head-mounted phone, minimum 60 clips totalling 90 minutes, India	₹750-1250 INR / hour per hour (hourly project budget)	Oct 2026	Client in Coimbatore, India, posted 7 days before reading. The rate is the client's hourly budget, not per hour of footage.	Freelancer.de, Mobile Egocentric Video Dataset The payer's own page
Driver recording their own car's road navigation from a trailing 360-degree camera (micro1 client project)	Pay: $15-20 USD/hour per approved video per hour of approved video	Oct 2026	Driving footage for navigation models captured on existing commutes; 100 openings, collector supplies camera and mount.	micro1, Car-Mounted 360° Video Recorder The payer's own page
First-person (egocentric) human data collected in China, quoted price per hour	每小时100元左右 per hour of data	Sep 2026	Egocentric data has fallen to about a tenth of the real-robot teleoperation quote in China.	Xinhua Finance (cnfin.com), 从遥操作到无本体具身智能数据迎有效性大考 Press report
Real-robot teleoperation data collected in China, quoted price per hour	每小时500-1000元 per hour of data	Sep 2026	The prevailing quote in China's embodied-data market per Xinhua Finance; UMI data is several hundred yuan an hour and egocentric about 100.	Xinhua Finance (cnfin.com), 从遥操作到无本体具身智能数据迎有效性大考 Press report
Shanghai Zhixiangyuan China Egocentric Human Activity Dataset, ~3,000 hours residential and commercial first-person video, mostly 1080p ~60 fps	$8,550 per dataset of ~3,000 hours	Sep 2026	The lowest egocentric per-hour price found. The volume is approximate and metadata varies by subset.	Opendatabay, Shanghai Zhixiangyuan Intelligent Technology listing: China Egocentric Human Activity Dataset, 3,000 Hours A catalogue or marketplace listing
Video of repeated hand manipulation tasks with handheld devices for robotics, United States	$10 to $20 per hour per hour	Sep 2026	Listing gives San Francisco and 100% remote inconsistently.	OpenTrain AI, Robotics Dexterity Data Collection Specialist The payer's own page
Egocentric-only household task video capture	$80-$200 per captured hour per captured hour	Sep 2026	Vendor FAQ estimate, repeated on its stereo egocentric page. Annotation is priced separately.	DataX Power, Household Robot Training Data: Collecting Task Video in Real Homes (2026) A vendor's published price guide
Synchronized multi-camera and multi-sensor robotics video capture	$200-$450 per captured hour per captured hour	Sep 2026	Applies when wrist, third-person cameras or force/torque logging are added to egocentric capture.	DataX Power, Multi-Camera Video Collection for Robotics Training A vendor's published price guide
Contractor performing repetitive manipulation tasks with handheld devices for robot dexterity data (micro1 for a client, Los Angeles)	ideal_hourly_rate max 20, min 10 per hour	Sep 2026	Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text; a third of the San Francisco UMI rate for similar work.	micro1, Robot Whisperer (Skills & Data) The payer's own page
Infobay.AI 220K+ Hours Narrated Egocentric Video Dataset, first-person video with embedded spoken narration (price for initial 50,000-hour batch)	$488,200 per initial batch of 50,000 hours	Sep 2026	The listing says the price covers only an initial 50,000-hour batch; larger batches are priced on request.	Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 220K+ Hours Narrated Egocentric Video Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Senior software engineer running a teleoperation data-collection floor and directing its operators (Welo Data, Project Hydra, Santa Clara)	Rate: $105/hour per hour (12-month W-2 contract)	Sep 2026	Overhead labour inside a vendor-run teleop data factory; Welo also lists a robotics lab manager at $71 to $81 and a production manager at $90 to $110 an hour there.	Welo Data on Lever, Project Hydra: Senior Software Engineer - Robot Data Collection The payer's own page
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Factory Assembly Line, USA, 25,000 hours of head/chest-mounted video	$111,800 per dataset of 25,000 hours	Sep 2026	The seller lists about 20 egocentric sets at a near-uniform $3.50 to $5 an hour (India textile, 15,000 h for $52,600). Some of its listings call themselves SAMPLE listings.	Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Factory Assembly Line, USA (25000 Hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Household Maintenance, Colombia, 250 hours (cleaning, plumbing, furniture) with IMU	$1,120 per dataset of 250 hours	Sep 2026	1080p and 4K, proprietary licence.	Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Household Maintenance, Colombia (250 Hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Living Room & Bedroom, USA, 34 hours of casual indoor first-person video	$160 per dataset of 34 hours	Sep 2026	The seller's smallest listing is priced at about $4.70 per hour, the same as its large ones, so there is no volume discount.	Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Living Room & Bedroom, USA (34 Hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Precision Electronics, Japan, 10,000 hours of cleanroom/microelectronics first-person video	$50,000 per dataset of 10,000 hours	Sep 2026	The listing text calls itself a 'SAMPLE listing', so check that the full volume is actually available.	Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Precision Electronics, Japan (10000 Hours) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Operator running a handheld UMI gripper through repetitive manipulation tasks in a San Francisco lab (micro1 for a client)	ideal_hourly_rate max 30, min 30 per hour	Sep 2026	Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text, which states no rate; 10 openings.	micro1, Robot Training Operator The payer's own page
Data collection operator (swing shift) generating real-world training data for the NEO home humanoid at 1X (San Carlos)	$28.00 - $36.00/hr per hour	Sep 2026	Full-time with equity; 1X moved its board from Recruitee to Ashby, and older Recruitee operator listings no longer resolve.	1X on Ashby, Operator - Data Collection (Swing Shift) The payer's own page
Deploy8 50-Hour Industrial Egocentric Stereo, electric motor rewinding workshops in India, 49.3 hours, 117 sessions, raw	$395 per dataset of 49.3 hours (seller also states 8 USD per hour)	Sep 2026	Raw footage of expert trade work, unlabelled and not quality-checked. Non-exclusive 20-year licence, no reselling.	Opendatabay, Deploy8 listing: 50-Hour Industrial Egocentric Stereo: Electric Motor Rewinding A catalogue or marketplace listing
Third-person 360-degree video of movement and navigation (Insta360 or GoPro MAX) for a micro1 client	Rate: $20 per hour of approved video (PPT) per hour of approved video	Sep 2026	Collector owns the camera; only footage that passes quality review is paid.	micro1, 360° Video Recorder (Insta360 / GoPro MAX) The payer's own page
EgoData egocentric POV video of household activities, iPhone 12+, India	₹220 per approved hour per approved hour of footage	Sep 2026	The household tier of the posting (commercial footage pays Rs 320); the listing is now closed.	Freelancer.de, Freelancers or vendors Egocentric video Data Collectors Needed The payer's own page
EgoData egocentric POV video in commercial or workplace settings, iPhone 12+, India	₹320 per approved hour per approved hour of footage	Sep 2026	The commercial tier of the same posting (household footage pays Rs 220); the listing is now closed.	Freelancer.de, Freelancers or vendors Egocentric video Data Collectors Needed The payer's own page
Egocentric 'day in a life' recordings on a head-mounted Insta360 X5 in New Zealand (RemoExperts)	$110/hr per hour (the listing does not say worked or recorded)	Sep 2026	From a job aggregator; the same aggregator shows RemoExperts paying $40 to $120 an hour across its six open roles.	AITraining.jobs, RemoExperts: New Zealand Egocentric Video Data Collector A catalogue or marketplace listing
Egocentric 'day in a life' recordings on a head-mounted Insta360 X5 in Singapore (RemoExperts)	$120/hr per hour (the listing does not say worked or recorded)	Sep 2026	From a job aggregator; RemoExperts' own portal would not render. Collector must own an Insta360 X5 and record 10-minute sessions.	AITraining.jobs, RemoExperts: Singapore Egocentric Video Data Collector A catalogue or marketplace listing
QC reviewer of robot manipulation video annotations (Welo Data, Project Cursa, Philippines)	$4.03 - $4.03 an hour per hour	Aug 2026	The reviewer earns 15% more than the annotator; compare DexSet's $8 to $25 per data hour price for the same kind of annotation pass.	Welo Data on Lever, Project Cursa - Robot Manipulation Video Annotation QC (V2) The payer's own page
Annotator writing three-level natural-language labels for three-camera robot manipulation videos (Welo Data, Project Cursa, Philippines)	$3.50 - $3.50 an hour per hour	Aug 2026	Labels atomic motions, skills and task goals for VLA training; the cheapest robotics labour found.	Welo Data on Lever, Project Cursa - Robot Manipulation Video Annotator (V2) The payer's own page
At-home recorder filming household chores first-person on a smartphone headstrap (micro1)	15$/h of recorded video per hour of recorded video that passes guidelines	Aug 2026	Rate is in the posting's screening question; parallel US and LATAM listings pay per hour of compliant video with a $20 bonus after 20 hours.	micro1, Smartphone Video Recorder The payer's own page
At-home first-person video of household tasks, United States	$14 to $15 per hour of recorded video per hour of recorded video	Aug 2026	US rate for the same kind of head-strap capture that pays $6 an hour in Latin America on the same board.	OpenTrain AI, At-Home Household Task Video Recorder The payer's own page
At-home first-person video of repetitive physical movements, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico	$6 per hour for approved recorded video per hour of approved recorded video	Aug 2026	Paid per hour of approved footage, with a $20 bonus after 20 hours; a Portuguese listing for the same countries pays the same $6.	OpenTrain AI, At-Home First-Person Video Recorder The payer's own page
At-home household video recording, United States (entry level)	$10 to $15 per hour per hour	Aug 2026	Contract role; the listing does not say whether the hour is of work or of accepted footage.	OpenTrain AI, At-Home Household Video Recorder The payer's own page
Nexdata 10,000-Hour Egocentric Full-Body Multimodal Dataset, 4K stereo (PICO 4 Ultra) with 76-point full-body pose and step labels	$657,900 per dataset of 10,000 hours	Aug 2026	Densely annotated robot-learning data (pose plus action steps), which is why it sits far above raw egocentric listings. Commercial licence.	Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 10000 Hour Egocentric Video Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Robot operator providing teleoperated demonstrations at Physical Intelligence (San Francisco)	Compensation: $25/hour + benefits package per hour	Aug 2026	Full-time, on-site; the operator's demonstrations are the training data for PI's robot foundation models.	Physical Intelligence on Ashby, Robot Operator The payer's own page
Robot operator doing VR teleoperation for Toyota Research Institute (via HireArt)	32.50 - 37.50 USD Per Hour per hour (paid to the operator)	Aug 2026	US on-site labour cost inside teleoperation data, before rigs, QA and vendor margin.	HireArt job listing (Toyota Research Institute) The payer's own page
Asia Residential Teleoperation Video Dataset (Merit Data): about 600 teleoperation demonstration recordings, about 20 hours, residential scenes	$60,800 per dataset of about 600 recordings (about 20 hours)	Jul 2026	Asking price on a marketplace, listed 2026-07-29; counts are the seller's approximations and the page also labels the data CC0, so read the licence before relying on it.	Opendatabay, Asia Residential Teleoperation Video Dataset (Merit Data) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Merit Data South Asia Residential Mono Egocentric Video Dataset, ~800 hours / ~10,000 iPhone recordings, 4K and 1080p	$63,300 per dataset of ~800 hours	Jul 2026	The volume is stated as approximate. The licence is shown as CC0, which is unusual for a paid set.	Opendatabay, Merit Data listing: South Asia Residential Mono Egocentric Video Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 38K+ Hours IMU Egocentric Video Dataset, wearable first-person video with accelerometer and gyroscope streams	$560,100 per dataset of 38K+ hours	Jul 2026	The seller notes the final price varies with requirements.	Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 38K+ Hours IMU Egocentric Video Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
In-house collector recording task demonstrations and testing new tasks and hardware (Sunday Robotics, Redwood City, evening shift)	$35 per hour per hour	Jul 2026	Fixed 40-hour week on site; compare the remote per-approved-hour model on the same board.	Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (in-house) PM Shift The payer's own page
Human annotation of egocentric robotics video (Macrodata benchmark, cited by Perceptron)	roughly $50 per video-hour per video-hour	Jul 2026	Perceptron says its automated profile is 10 to 15 times cheaper, which implies about $3 to $5 per video-hour for machine labels.	Perceptron, Introducing Perceptron Egocentric API A vendor's published price guide
2,000-demonstration bimanual imitation-learning dataset for one task family (DataXpower planning figure)	approximately $110,000-$215,000 including QA overhead per program of 2,000 demonstrations	Jul 2026	Assumes 3 demonstrations an hour and 75% acceptance; a planning estimate, not a quote.	DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide A vendor's published price guide
Collection of 5,000 whole-body humanoid demonstrations (one program)	$250,000-$750,000 for the data collection phase alone per program	Jul 2026	A planning estimate, not a quote; 2,000 bimanual demos are put at $110,000 to $215,000 including QA.	DataXpower A vendor's published price guide
Bimanual ALOHA-style teleoperation program, managed by DataXpower	$40-80 per hour of collected data per hour of collected data	Jul 2026	Acceptance rates of 70 to 85% are stated for bimanual programs.	DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric wearable program with annotation (head and wrist cameras), managed by DataXpower	$25-60 per hour of collected data per hour of collected data	Jul 2026	Includes annotation; raw wearable video without it is put at $25 to $40 an hour.	DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide A vendor's published price guide
Full humanoid multi-sensor program (mocap suits or exoskeletons, F/T and IMU), managed by DataXpower	$80-150 per hour of collected data per hour of collected data	Jul 2026	The top of the vendor price ladder; sensor-dense setups are said to cost 3 to 5 times a single-camera RGB program.	DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide A vendor's published price guide
Complex humanoid whole-body demonstration (DataXpower benchmark)	often $50-150 per demonstration per demonstration	Jul 2026	Vendor benchmark from its own programs; the same guide puts full humanoid multi-sensor capture at $80 to $150 per hour.	DataXpower A vendor's published price guide
Simple single-arm teleoperation program (pick-and-place, sorting), managed by DataXpower	$15-30 per hour of collected data per hour of collected data	Jul 2026	Vendor benchmark; the cheapest teleoperation tier, below most US operators' hourly pay, so it implies offshore labour.	DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide A vendor's published price guide
First-person household video data collection, United States (participating states)	$13 to $15 per hour per hour of qualifying recorded video	Jul 2026	Pay is based on qualifying recorded video, so the hour is an hour of accepted footage.	OpenTrain AI, First-Person Household Video Data Collector The payer's own page
Worked budget for a 10,000-hour teleoperation dataset with language annotation for a VLA model (DexSet)	~$646,000, or $64.60 per usable annotated hour per program (10,000 usable hours)	Jul 2026	Built from a $42 blended raw rate ($525,000 capture), $100,000 language annotation and $21,000 storage and delivery; a planning figure, not a deal.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Annotation passes on robot data, added to any capture modality (DexSet benchmark)	$8 to $25 per hour extra per hour of data	Jul 2026	Add-on price; Welo Data pays Philippine annotators $3.50 an hour for comparable robot-video labelling.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Dense object masks or contact annotation on robot data (DexSet per-pass price)	$18 to $25 per data hour per data hour	Jul 2026	Most expensive annotation pass listed.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Collector labour inside egocentric video capture (DexSet cost structure)	$10 to $26 per hour per hour	Jul 2026	Hardware adds $1 to $4 and QA $5 to $10 an hour, for $15 to $40 total; collectors in India and Malaysia are paid $1 to $4.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Language-instruction labelling of robot data (DexSet per-pass price)	$8 to $12 per data hour per data hour	Jul 2026	Cheapest annotation pass; subtask segmentation is $10 to $16 per data hour on the same page.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Multi-view exocentric capture for robot learning (DexSet benchmark)	$20 to $50 per hour per hour	Jul 2026	Varies with camera count and calibration; a vendor's own benchmark.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Operator labour inside teleoperated bimanual data (DexSet cost structure)	$18 to $38 per hour per hour	Jul 2026	Vendor's own labour cost; the same page puts rig amortisation at $4 to $9 and QA at $6 to $12 an hour, for $28 to $60 per raw hour all in.	DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide A vendor's published price guide
Teleoperation demonstrations for robots	$28 to $60 per raw hour per hour	Jul 2026	A collection vendor's own benchmark per raw hour; 10 to 30 percent of episodes fail QA, so the cost per usable hour is higher. The earlier row read $28 to $200 with no quote; the page states $28 to $60.	DexSet pricing guide A vendor's published price guide
First-person video of manual work, in bulk	$2 to $5 an hour per hour	Jul 2026	About 90% is discarded by the buyer. Collection rates in India fell about 30% in the first half of 2026 as supply grew.	Flikforge Press report
Indian garment worker wearing a head camera through a factory shift	about Rs 400 daily per day	Jul 2026	The factory, not the worker, is paid by the hour; the same article says rates fell 30% from January to June 2026.	StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom Press report
Annotated Indian egocentric footage resold to global robotics labs	$15-50 (Rs 1,419-4,730) per hour per hour of video	Jul 2026	Against about $5 an hour paid to the factory, so most of the value is captured by the packager abroad.	StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom Press report
Raw egocentric video hours from India, priced by task complexity (Human Archive)	$1-10 per hour (Rs 95-946) per hour of video	Jul 2026	Raw-data price before packaging; the same article says packaged data resells abroad at $15 to $50 per hour and collection rates fell 30% from January to June 2026.	StartupFeed Press report
Payment from egocentric-data startups to an Indian factory whose workers wear cameras (RoBoEra figure)	about Rs 450-500 per hour per hour	Jul 2026	Per RoBoEra's founder; the article does not say whether the hour is a worker-hour or a recorded hour.	StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom Press report
On-site collector wearing a first-person camera while doing household activities (Appen/CrowdGen, Kuala Lumpur, 4-day project)	Compensation: USD 3.60 per hour per hour	Jun 2026	9 to 12 June 2026, 9am to 6pm daily, device provided on site; collectors pay their own transport.	Appen on Lever, EGO Embodied Data Collector Short-Term Project Contractor The payer's own page
Recording short videos of everyday household or professional tasks with a recording headstrap for robot training (MicroAGI, Shift app)	$20 per hour plus bonuses per hour (paid to the recorder, plus bonuses)	May 2026	Ars Technica relays what the Shift app website offers recorders ('supposedly getting paid'); the Shift site itself (joinshift.us) needs a browser and was not read. Traders Union (15 Oct 2026) repeats Shift pay as 'up to $30 an hour' with no primary source, so that figure is not recorded. Ars also reports that the site suggests more than 10,000 operators were paid more than $5 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.	Ars Technica Press report
First-person household chores video capture, Latin America	$6/hour USD of accepted footage per hour of accepted footage	May 2026	Claru says most contributors earn about $40 a day (6 to 7 hours of footage) or $300 a week; 90% hand visibility required.	Claru, Egocentric Household Tasks Capture (Latin America) job listing The payer's own page
Real-robot teleoperation data in China, cost per task episode from equipment amortisation and sundries	单任务每次的数据成本大概在3-5元 per task episode	May 2026	One year's amortisation of a teleoperation robot plus sundries, before most equipment, site and operator costs, so a floor on production cost.	Huxiu, reprinting Shenxiang: 终于，具身智能的真机数据难题有了新解法 Press report
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam	$5/hour USD per hour	May 2026	Lowest of Claru's geo tiers, one third of the US rate.	Claru, Garage Capture (Asia) job listing The payer's own page
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, Canada	$10/hour USD per hour	May 2026	Same program as the US listing at two thirds of the US rate.	Claru, Garage Capture (Canada) job listing The payer's own page
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, United States	$15/hour USD per hour	May 2026	Smartphone on head mount; sessions 30 to 90 minutes; two to four captures a week typical.	Claru, Garage Capture (US) job listing The payer's own page
Egocentric (first-person) video collection by workers in India for Human Archive	a base rate of $1 per hour per hour (paid to the collector)	May 2026	Collector pay only; TechCrunch cites the Economic Times that rival collectors pay about ₹250 to ₹400 (roughly $2.63 to $4.20) per hour.	TechCrunch Press report
Egocentric data collection workers in India paid by Human Archive's competitors	₹250 to ₹400 per hour (roughly $2.63 to $4.20) per hour	May 2026	Two to four times Human Archive's own $1 base rate; Human Archive says its on-the-ground presence lets it pay less.	TechCrunch, Human Archive taps into India's services startups (citing the Economic Times) Press report
Crowd-platform (unmanaged) video collection in India	India at $2-6 per hour per hour of footage	May 2026	Unmanaged crowd rates (Vietnam $3 to $8, Philippines $3 to $7 in the same guide); consistent with the $1 to $10 raw egocentric prices reported from India.	DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric video collection in the UK and EU	$35-55 per hour per hour of captured footage	May 2026	Includes the cost of labour rules for field work, per the vendor.	DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric video collection from US vendors, comparable quality	$30-45 per hour per hour of captured footage	May 2026	A competitor's view of US pricing, so it may be set high; geography alone moves the price two to three times.	DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric (first-person) video collection in Vietnam	$12-18 per hour per hour of captured footage	May 2026	The vendor's own Vietnam rate, inclusive of crew, hardware and QA; it sets this against $30 to $45 from US vendors.	DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam A vendor's published price guide
Data collector teleoperating robot arms through diverse tasks at Dyna Robotics (Redwood City)	$30 – $32 per hour per hour	May 2026	Contract role with possible conversion; duties are manual teleoperation plus annotating recorded data.	Dyna Robotics on Ashby, Data Collection Operator The payer's own page
Hourly wages for human data collection for robot training (people recording everyday tasks), industry estimate by region	anywhere between $5 and $20 per hour (wages, depending on the region)	Apr 2026	An analyst's account (Interact Analysis) of the industry's labour cost for human-data collection, not a named employer's posted rate.	CNN (via KVIA), How filming your chores could train the android butlers of the future Press report
At-home recording of household tasks for humanoid robot training (micro1, Nigeria)	$15 an hour per hour (paid to the recorder)	Apr 2026	One worker's rate; micro1's CEO told the same outlet robotics companies spend more than $100 million a year buying such data.	MIT Technology Review Press report
Operator collecting humanoid robot data in VR (1X, listed under Kind Humanoid, San Carlos, day shift)	USD 26-40 / hour per hour	Apr 2026	Filed under Kind Humanoid on the board, but the description is 1X's; closed to applications when read, posted 6+ months earlier. 1X's current swing-shift operator band is $28 to $36.	Khosla Ventures job board, Kind Humanoid: Operator, Data Collection (Day Shift) The payer's own page
Senior operator collecting humanoid robot data in VR, in lab and home settings (1X, listed under Kind Humanoid, San Carlos)	USD 36-46 / hour per hour	Apr 2026	The board files it under Kind Humanoid but the description opens 'About 1X'; posted 6+ months before reading. Operators also annotate what they collect. The highest US operator band found.	Khosla Ventures job board, Kind Humanoid: Senior Operator - Data Collection (Day Shift) The payer's own page
Production cost of one usable bimanual assembly demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)	Bimanual Assembly: $10.00 total per usable demo per usable demonstration	Mar 2026	Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Production cost of one usable dexterous manipulation demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)	Dexterous Manipulation: $20.00 total per usable demo per usable demonstration	Mar 2026	Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Production cost of one usable simple pick-place demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)	Simple Pick-Place: $3.75 total per usable demo per usable demonstration	Mar 2026	Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Contact-rich bimanual robot demonstration episode (Robotics Center cost guide)	$25-$35 per episode	Mar 2026	Vendor's published range for the hardest tier in its guide.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Simple pick-and-place robot demonstration episode (Robotics Center cost guide)	$8-$15 per episode	Mar 2026	A vendor's published market range per episode, above its own custom-collection list ($0.50 to $1 for 5-second episodes), so the guide prices longer, quality-filtered episodes.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 2,000 demonstrations (Robotics Center)	$20,000 for 2,000 demos per programme of 2,000 demonstrations	Mar 2026	Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 50 demonstrations (Robotics Center)	$2,500 for 50 demos per programme of 50 demonstrations	Mar 2026	Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 500 demonstrations (Robotics Center)	$8,000 for 500 demos per programme of 500 demonstrations	Mar 2026	Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 5,000 demonstrations (Robotics Center)	$35,000 for 5,000 demos per programme of 5,000 demonstrations	Mar 2026	Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Production-grade robot training dataset of 500 or more demonstrations (Robotics Center cost guide)	$50,000-$200,000 for 500+ demonstrations per dataset programme	Mar 2026	All-in programme cost including hardware, engineering and re-collection; the count is a floor (500+), so no per-demonstration figure is derived.	Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026? A vendor's published price guide
Robot operator doing teleoperation and data collection at Skild AI (Pittsburgh)	Base Salary Range $18 to $20 USD per hour (stated as a base range; hourly by magnitude)	Mar 2026	Same duties as the San Mateo role at about two thirds of the pay; Skild also lists an India operator role with no rate.	Skild AI on Greenhouse, Robot Operator - Pittsburgh The payer's own page
One motion-capture clip made in-house with an inertial suit (Rokoko, Perception Neuron), after cleanup	$5–$50 after cleanup per clip	Mar 2026	Own production cost on $3,000 to $6,000 of hardware; quality below optical capture.	MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
One day of a professional mid-tier optical motion-capture studio (OptiTrack or Vicon)	$1,500–$3,000/day per one-day session	Mar 2026	Day hire of studio and technical direction; smaller studios $500 to $900, top tier $3,000 to $5,000 or more, facial capture $500 to $2,000 a day extra. Hours per day not stated, so no hourly figure.	MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Skilled motion-capture editor time for cleaning raw capture	$75–$150/hour per hour	Mar 2026	Cleanup typically takes 2 to 8 times the raw capture time per clip, so it often costs more than the capture.	MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
One motion-capture clip from a professional optical studio session, after cleanup	$50–$200+ after cleanup per clip	Mar 2026	A mocap vendor's 2026 guide; studio sessions run $1,500 to $5,000 a day and cleanup takes 2 to 8 times the capture time.	MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
One cleaned motion-capture animation bought in a pre-made pack	$0.50–$3 per clip per clip	Mar 2026	Off-the-shelf game-animation packs ($30 to $500 a pack); this seller's licence bars AI or machine-learning use without written permission.	MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)	$118/hour per hour of labelled data	Mar 2026	March 2026, from the vendor's own benchmark dataset. A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.	Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperator time bought from operators in India, the Philippines and Eastern Europe	$22 to $55/hour per operator hour	Mar 2026	Rates on the operator marketplace the report draws on; what a buyer pays per operator hour, not what the operator nets.	Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperator time bought from US-based operators with domain expertise	$65 to $120/hour per operator hour	Mar 2026	About two to three times US robot-operator wages ($25 to $36 on postings), the vendor margin and overhead on top of pay.	Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric POV video of household tasks for humanoid training datasets, Philippines	$3 - $15 per hour per hour	Feb 2026	Employer not named; date is the listing's 'date updated'.	OnlineJobs.ph, Egocentric Video Data Collection The payer's own page
Labelling autonomous-vehicle driving data (validating AI pre-labels on edge cases)	about $3 to $6 per hour per hour worked	Feb 2026	Relayed from Business Insider, which estimates under 5,000 AV-specific labellers worldwide, TaskUs just under 2,000. A secondary summary; the original was not reached.	Let's Data Science, summarising Business Insider on robotaxi data labelling Press report
Remote worker filming their own household chores first-person with a head-mounted phone for robotics (micro1)	Pay: $8 per hour (Fixed hourly rate) per hour	Jan 2026	1,000 openings, now closed; a screening question on the same page asks applicants to accept $6 an hour, so the effective rate may have been lower.	micro1, Daily Routine Video Assistant The payer's own page
First-person video of manual work, captured to a spec	$15 to $40 an hour per hour	Jan 2026	Raw capture runs $15 to $22 an hour; calibrated and fully annotated footage $30 to $40. Buyers reject 15 to 25% at quality review.	DexSet pricing guide A vendor's published price guide
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)	$136/hour per hour of labelled data	Dec 2025	Q4 2025. A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.	Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Remote collector recording more complex household-task demonstrations after screening (Sunday Robotics)	Up to $60 per hour of approved data per hour of approved data	Nov 2025	Ceiling for complex tasks; paid via Stripe within 2 to 3 business days.	Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (remote) The payer's own page
Remote collector recording household-task demonstrations on provided hardware (Sunday Robotics, screening week)	$30 per hour of approved data per hour of approved data	Nov 2025	Paid per approved hour of data, not per hour worked, so rejected footage is the collector's loss; excludes CA, NY, MA, NJ and IL.	Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (remote) The payer's own page
JoinAI POV Robotic Behavior Video Dataset, 1,000,000+ generated first-person 6 to 8 s clips, 2,000+ hours, 1080p	$39,500 per dataset of 2,000+ hours	Oct 2025	Generated (synthetic) POV video for VLA training. The description also carries a pasted line about 20,000 images that does not match this product.	Opendatabay, JoinAI listing: POV Robotic Behavior Video Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Robot operator doing teleoperation and data collection at Skild AI (San Mateo)	Base Salary Range $25 to $30 USD per hour (stated as a base range; hourly by magnitude)	Jun 2025	First published 2025-06-25 and still open on the day read; operators must meet quality and quantity bars on the data they collect.	Skild AI on Greenhouse, Robot Operator The payer's own page
Skilled participant recorded in first- and third-person video for the Ego-Exo4D dataset	US$20 in gift cards for each hour per hour of recording	Sep 2024	Academic consortium led by Meta; plus a $20 travel reimbursement. A pre-boom reference point for egocentric capture pay.	arXiv, Ego-Exo4D (v4) The payer's own page
Data collection operator wearing a motion-capture suit and VR headset for Tesla's Optimus program (Palo Alto)	$25.25 to $48 per hour per hour	Aug 2024	Reported from Tesla's careers page, which blocks automated reading; the role walks test routes 7+ hours a day. The only motion-capture pay figure found.	Decrypt, Tesla Will Pay Up to $48 an Hour to Capture Your Movements Press report
Humanoid robot pilot wearing teleoperation equipment to guide Figure's robot and upload the data (San Jose)	$32.00 per hour per hour (6-month fixed term)	May 2024	First published 2024-05-14 and still open, unchanged, on the day read; Figure is also opening Data Creator units in Mexico City and São Paulo.	Figure AI on Greenhouse, Humanoid Robot Pilot The payer's own page
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)	$340/hour per hour of labelled data	Mar 2024	Early 2024 (Q1 2024 on the report's chart). A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.	Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026 A vendor's published price guide

AI-detected driving event clip with video and sensor data (Bee Maps AI Event Videos API)
Price
$6/ video
per event video
When
Oct 2026
What to know
List price per clip of a detected driving event (the edge cases driving models are trained on); clip length is not stated, so no per-hour figure.
Source
Bee Maps, Pricing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Machine-detected road features (signs, lane lines and the like) from dashcam imagery (Bee Maps Road Detections)
Price
$3/ 1K detections
per 1,000 detections
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Derived map data rather than raw driving footage; consumption pricing.
Source
Bee Maps, Pricing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Street-level dashcam image from the Bee Maps (Hivemapper) network, queried by location with timestamp and GPS
Price
$0.005/ image
per image
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Consumption-based list price with no upfront commitment; imagery comes from a crowd of drivers with Bee dashcams.
Source
Bee Maps, Pricing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online crowd animation pack, 108 optical motion-capture animations
Price
$34.99
per pack of 108 animations
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.
Source
MoCap Online, crowd pack
A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online ladder animation pack, 198 optical motion-capture animations
Price
$29.99
per pack of 198 animations
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.
Source
MoCap Online, ladder pack
A catalogue or marketplace listing
MoCap Online walk animation pack, 30 optical motion-capture animations
Price
$29.99
per pack of 30 animations
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A game-animation licence: the seller's terms say its assets may not be used in AI or machine learning without prior written permission, so this is the price of motion data without training rights. The list price stands (it is the compare-at price in the store data); the page draws its prices in the browser, and a 50% Halloween sale runs to 2 November 2026.
Source
MoCap Online, walk pack
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Bimanual Manipulation Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)
Price
Bimanual Manipulation Pack: From $5,000
per dataset licence (starting price)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Humanoid or dexterous full-body teleoperation episode, whole-body policy training (Robotics Center custom collection)
Price
$5 - $15 per episode
per episode
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A vendor's published price guide
Long-horizon, bimanual or contact-rich teleoperation episode, production policy fine-tuning (Robotics Center custom collection)
Price
$3 - $5 per episode
per episode
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A vendor's published price guide
Mid-complexity manipulation teleoperation episode (15 to 30 seconds), standard imitation learning (Robotics Center custom collection)
Price
$1 - $3 per episode
per episode
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A vendor's published price guide
Teleoperation task episode on a novel embodiment (robot shipped in by the customer), bespoke R&D collection (Robotics Center)
Price
$500 per task episode
per task episode
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The price when the vendor must learn the customer's own robot: about 30 to 1,000 times its per-episode price on its own rigs. The page headlines custom collection as from $500 per task episode.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A vendor's published price guide
Simple pick-and-place teleoperation episode (about 5 seconds), for VLA pretraining volume (Robotics Center custom collection)
Price
$0.50 - $1 per episode
per episode
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vendor list price for teleoperated episodes collected to order on its robots; data licensed exclusively by default, volume discounts above 10,000 episodes, 2 to 6 weeks turnaround.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A vendor's published price guide
Dexterous Grasping Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)
Price
Dexterous Grasping Pack: From $5,000
per dataset licence (starting price)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Humanoid Locomotion Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)
Price
Humanoid Locomotion Pack: From $10,000
per dataset licence (starting price)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A catalogue or marketplace listing
VLA Evaluation Pack, ready-to-license robot dataset (Robotics Center)
Price
VLA Evaluation Pack: From $3,000
per dataset licence (starting price)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Off-the-shelf starting price; the page gives no episode count, so no per-episode figure.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), Custom Robot Teleoperation Data Collection
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Full day in Teesside University's VR motion-capture studio (18 infra-red cameras, up to six suits), motion-capture control with technical support
Price
Full day: £600
per one-day session
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A university facility's published hire rate; half day GBP 350, weekend GBP 750, data clean-up extra. At the bottom of the commercial range.
Source
Teesside University, VR motion capture studio (business facilities)
The payer's own page
Egocentric video from people wearing cameras in everyday activities (Claru's cost figure)
Price
$10-30 per hour
per hour
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Production cost: participant pay plus equipment amortisation, before margin and annotation.
Source
Claru, How to collect egocentric video data (2026 guide)
A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric video sample pack, 10 to 15 clips with basic metadata
Price
$500–$2,000 for 10–15 clips
per sample pack of 10 to 15 clips
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Entry price for a custom or archive egocentric pack. Full dataset pricing is on request, and annotated packs cost more depending on layers.
Source
Claru, Egocentric Video Data for Physical AI
A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperation data (Claru's market figure)
Price
$50-200 per hour of operator time
per hour of operator time
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Undated 2026 guide from a vendor that sells egocentric video, which has a reason to stress teleop's cost; hardware wear and a fixed site come on top.
Source
Claru, How to collect egocentric video data (2026 guide)
A vendor's published price guide
Robot 'Mirror Suit' robotics and vision imagery, 425 assets (BWS on Datarade)
Price
$3,000 discounted to $2,850 / purchase
per dataset of 425 assets
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A small fixed-price set, about $6.71 per asset at the sale price ($2,850 / 425).
Source
Datarade, Robotics Data category (BWS listing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Real-world egocentric POV human task video dataset for physical AI and robotics (M-ART on Datarade)
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
per purchase (minimum)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Size not stated on the card; product page was rate-limited when read.
Source
Datarade, Robotics Data category (M-ART listing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Embodied AI data collection and annotation service for robots (Nexdata on Datarade)
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
per engagement (minimum)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Minimum order for custom collection; the scope that $10,000 buys is not stated.
Source
Datarade, Robotics Data category (Nexdata listing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Data collection operator using UMI, GELLO and VR teleoperation tools (RoboForce, Milpitas, swing shift)
Price
USD $30.00 - 35.00 per hour
per hour
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Contractor; the page said posted 30 to 60+ days before reading. Duties include object manipulation and walking set routes.
Source
Dice, RoboForce: Data Collection Operator- AI Robotics (Swing Shift)
The payer's own page
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, 4,050 hours of first-person household video with 3D pose and IMU (Pico + Zed + motion trackers)
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 4,050 hours (one-off purchase)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged; its per-scenario hours add up to 3,600, not 4,050. It bundles the 2,321 h and 1,729 h setups, each listed separately at the same floor.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, 4,050 Hours of First-Person Videos
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, Pico + Motion Trackers setup, 2,321 hours of first-person household manipulation (13 scenarios) with IMU
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 2,321 hours (one-off purchase)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Volume fields read 2.32K and 2,320 hours.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, Pico + Motion Trackers Setup (2,321 hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Egocentric Video Dataset, Zed stereo + Pico + motion trackers setup, 1,729 hours of multimodal first-person household recordings
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 1,729 hours (one-off purchase)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. The same $30,000 floor as the 2,321 h and 4,050 h sets, so per-hour falls as size grows.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Egocentric Video Dataset, Zed + Pico + Motion Trackers Setup (1,729 hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Ordinary monocular raw (first-person) robot training video sold in China, actual transaction price per hour
Price
每小时15元至20元
per hour of data
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Realised prices given by a collector to Caijing; he says collector wages alone exceed single digits an hour, so the lowest prices are not organised collection. Prices mix sources and delivery terms.
Source
ifeng Tech, citing Caijing: 机器人训练数据被曝反复转卖
Press report
Robot training video of unknown origin (resold) in China, transaction price per hour
Price
每小时3元至5元
per hour of data
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The floor of a market where data is resold repeatedly; about a fifth of the price of raw data with a known source.
Source
ifeng Tech, citing Caijing: 机器人训练数据被曝反复转卖
Press report
Infobay.AI 5K+ Hours Stereo IMU Egocentric Dataset, stereo video with synchronized IMU
Price
$135,700
per dataset of 5K+ hours
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The seller says the final price depends on requirements, and the page's 'Considerations' section says the dataset contains only sample data. The licence is shown as CC BY 4.0.
Source
Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 5K+ Hours Stereo IMU Egocentric Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Car-mounted 360-degree exterior driving video (trailing third-person view of turns, stops, intersections, parking), recorded by contributors in 52 countries
Price
$15 to $20 USD per hour for approved video work
per hour of approved video
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Contributors supply their own 360 camera and car and are paid only for approved footage; the same rate as micro1's car-mounted posting, likely the same end client.
Source
OpenTrain AI, Car-Mounted 360-Degree Vehicle Navigation Video Recorder
The payer's own page
Proposed common hourly rate for people who collect robot-training video in India (industry body)
Price
$7-10 an hour
per hour
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Proposed, not yet agreed; up to 10 times the roughly $1 an hour Human Archive pays today.
Source
StartupFeed, Indian physical AI startups weigh $7-10 hourly data pay
Press report
Mobile egocentric video dataset, chest or head-mounted phone, minimum 60 clips totalling 90 minutes, India
Price
₹750-1250 INR / hour
per hour (hourly project budget)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Client in Coimbatore, India, posted 7 days before reading. The rate is the client's hourly budget, not per hour of footage.
Source
Freelancer.de, Mobile Egocentric Video Dataset
The payer's own page
Driver recording their own car's road navigation from a trailing 360-degree camera (micro1 client project)
Price
Pay: $15-20 USD/hour per approved video
per hour of approved video
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Driving footage for navigation models captured on existing commutes; 100 openings, collector supplies camera and mount.
Source
micro1, Car-Mounted 360° Video Recorder
The payer's own page
First-person (egocentric) human data collected in China, quoted price per hour
Price
每小时100元左右
per hour of data
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Egocentric data has fallen to about a tenth of the real-robot teleoperation quote in China.
Source
Xinhua Finance (cnfin.com), 从遥操作到无本体具身智能数据迎有效性大考
Press report
Real-robot teleoperation data collected in China, quoted price per hour
Price
每小时500-1000元
per hour of data
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The prevailing quote in China's embodied-data market per Xinhua Finance; UMI data is several hundred yuan an hour and egocentric about 100.
Source
Xinhua Finance (cnfin.com), 从遥操作到无本体具身智能数据迎有效性大考
Press report
Shanghai Zhixiangyuan China Egocentric Human Activity Dataset, ~3,000 hours residential and commercial first-person video, mostly 1080p ~60 fps
Price
$8,550
per dataset of ~3,000 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The lowest egocentric per-hour price found. The volume is approximate and metadata varies by subset.
Source
Opendatabay, Shanghai Zhixiangyuan Intelligent Technology listing: China Egocentric Human Activity Dataset, 3,000 Hours
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Video of repeated hand manipulation tasks with handheld devices for robotics, United States
Price
$10 to $20 per hour
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Listing gives San Francisco and 100% remote inconsistently.
Source
OpenTrain AI, Robotics Dexterity Data Collection Specialist
The payer's own page
Egocentric-only household task video capture
Price
$80-$200 per captured hour
per captured hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Vendor FAQ estimate, repeated on its stereo egocentric page. Annotation is priced separately.
Source
DataX Power, Household Robot Training Data: Collecting Task Video in Real Homes (2026)
A vendor's published price guide
Synchronized multi-camera and multi-sensor robotics video capture
Price
$200-$450 per captured hour
per captured hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Applies when wrist, third-person cameras or force/torque logging are added to egocentric capture.
Source
DataX Power, Multi-Camera Video Collection for Robotics Training
A vendor's published price guide
Contractor performing repetitive manipulation tasks with handheld devices for robot dexterity data (micro1 for a client, Los Angeles)
Price
ideal_hourly_rate max 20, min 10
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text; a third of the San Francisco UMI rate for similar work.
Source
micro1, Robot Whisperer (Skills & Data)
The payer's own page
Infobay.AI 220K+ Hours Narrated Egocentric Video Dataset, first-person video with embedded spoken narration (price for initial 50,000-hour batch)
Price
$488,200
per initial batch of 50,000 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The listing says the price covers only an initial 50,000-hour batch; larger batches are priced on request.
Source
Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 220K+ Hours Narrated Egocentric Video Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Senior software engineer running a teleoperation data-collection floor and directing its operators (Welo Data, Project Hydra, Santa Clara)
Price
Rate: $105/hour
per hour (12-month W-2 contract)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Overhead labour inside a vendor-run teleop data factory; Welo also lists a robotics lab manager at $71 to $81 and a production manager at $90 to $110 an hour there.
Source
Welo Data on Lever, Project Hydra: Senior Software Engineer - Robot Data Collection
The payer's own page
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Factory Assembly Line, USA, 25,000 hours of head/chest-mounted video
Price
$111,800
per dataset of 25,000 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The seller lists about 20 egocentric sets at a near-uniform $3.50 to $5 an hour (India textile, 15,000 h for $52,600). Some of its listings call themselves SAMPLE listings.
Source
Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Factory Assembly Line, USA (25000 Hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Household Maintenance, Colombia, 250 hours (cleaning, plumbing, furniture) with IMU
Price
$1,120
per dataset of 250 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
1080p and 4K, proprietary licence.
Source
Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Household Maintenance, Colombia (250 Hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Living Room & Bedroom, USA, 34 hours of casual indoor first-person video
Price
$160
per dataset of 34 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The seller's smallest listing is priced at about $4.70 per hour, the same as its large ones, so there is no volume discount.
Source
Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Living Room & Bedroom, USA (34 Hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Verbose TechLabs Egocentric Precision Electronics, Japan, 10,000 hours of cleanroom/microelectronics first-person video
Price
$50,000
per dataset of 10,000 hours
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The listing text calls itself a 'SAMPLE listing', so check that the full volume is actually available.
Source
Opendatabay, Verbose TechLabs LLP listing: Egocentric Precision Electronics, Japan (10000 Hours)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Operator running a handheld UMI gripper through repetitive manipulation tasks in a San Francisco lab (micro1 for a client)
Price
ideal_hourly_rate max 30, min 30
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text, which states no rate; 10 openings.
Source
micro1, Robot Training Operator
The payer's own page
Data collection operator (swing shift) generating real-world training data for the NEO home humanoid at 1X (San Carlos)
Price
$28.00 - $36.00/hr
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Full-time with equity; 1X moved its board from Recruitee to Ashby, and older Recruitee operator listings no longer resolve.
Source
1X on Ashby, Operator - Data Collection (Swing Shift)
The payer's own page
Deploy8 50-Hour Industrial Egocentric Stereo, electric motor rewinding workshops in India, 49.3 hours, 117 sessions, raw
Price
$395
per dataset of 49.3 hours (seller also states 8 USD per hour)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Raw footage of expert trade work, unlabelled and not quality-checked. Non-exclusive 20-year licence, no reselling.
Source
Opendatabay, Deploy8 listing: 50-Hour Industrial Egocentric Stereo: Electric Motor Rewinding
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Third-person 360-degree video of movement and navigation (Insta360 or GoPro MAX) for a micro1 client
Price
Rate: $20 per hour of approved video (PPT)
per hour of approved video
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Collector owns the camera; only footage that passes quality review is paid.
Source
micro1, 360° Video Recorder (Insta360 / GoPro MAX)
The payer's own page
EgoData egocentric POV video of household activities, iPhone 12+, India
Price
₹220 per approved hour
per approved hour of footage
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The household tier of the posting (commercial footage pays Rs 320); the listing is now closed.
Source
Freelancer.de, Freelancers or vendors Egocentric video Data Collectors Needed
The payer's own page
EgoData egocentric POV video in commercial or workplace settings, iPhone 12+, India
Price
₹320 per approved hour
per approved hour of footage
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The commercial tier of the same posting (household footage pays Rs 220); the listing is now closed.
Source
Freelancer.de, Freelancers or vendors Egocentric video Data Collectors Needed
The payer's own page
Egocentric 'day in a life' recordings on a head-mounted Insta360 X5 in New Zealand (RemoExperts)
Price
$110/hr
per hour (the listing does not say worked or recorded)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
From a job aggregator; the same aggregator shows RemoExperts paying $40 to $120 an hour across its six open roles.
Source
AITraining.jobs, RemoExperts: New Zealand Egocentric Video Data Collector
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Egocentric 'day in a life' recordings on a head-mounted Insta360 X5 in Singapore (RemoExperts)
Price
$120/hr
per hour (the listing does not say worked or recorded)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
From a job aggregator; RemoExperts' own portal would not render. Collector must own an Insta360 X5 and record 10-minute sessions.
Source
AITraining.jobs, RemoExperts: Singapore Egocentric Video Data Collector
A catalogue or marketplace listing
QC reviewer of robot manipulation video annotations (Welo Data, Project Cursa, Philippines)
Price
$4.03 - $4.03 an hour
per hour
When
Aug 2026
What to know
The reviewer earns 15% more than the annotator; compare DexSet's $8 to $25 per data hour price for the same kind of annotation pass.
Source
Welo Data on Lever, Project Cursa - Robot Manipulation Video Annotation QC (V2)
The payer's own page
Annotator writing three-level natural-language labels for three-camera robot manipulation videos (Welo Data, Project Cursa, Philippines)
Price
$3.50 - $3.50 an hour
per hour
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Labels atomic motions, skills and task goals for VLA training; the cheapest robotics labour found.
Source
Welo Data on Lever, Project Cursa - Robot Manipulation Video Annotator (V2)
The payer's own page
At-home recorder filming household chores first-person on a smartphone headstrap (micro1)
Price
15$/h of recorded video
per hour of recorded video that passes guidelines
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Rate is in the posting's screening question; parallel US and LATAM listings pay per hour of compliant video with a $20 bonus after 20 hours.
Source
micro1, Smartphone Video Recorder
The payer's own page
At-home first-person video of household tasks, United States
Price
$14 to $15 per hour of recorded video
per hour of recorded video
When
Aug 2026
What to know
US rate for the same kind of head-strap capture that pays $6 an hour in Latin America on the same board.
Source
OpenTrain AI, At-Home Household Task Video Recorder
The payer's own page
At-home first-person video of repetitive physical movements, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico
Price
$6 per hour for approved recorded video
per hour of approved recorded video
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Paid per hour of approved footage, with a $20 bonus after 20 hours; a Portuguese listing for the same countries pays the same $6.
Source
OpenTrain AI, At-Home First-Person Video Recorder
The payer's own page
At-home household video recording, United States (entry level)
Price
$10 to $15 per hour
per hour
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Contract role; the listing does not say whether the hour is of work or of accepted footage.
Source
OpenTrain AI, At-Home Household Video Recorder
The payer's own page
Nexdata 10,000-Hour Egocentric Full-Body Multimodal Dataset, 4K stereo (PICO 4 Ultra) with 76-point full-body pose and step labels
Price
$657,900
per dataset of 10,000 hours
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Densely annotated robot-learning data (pose plus action steps), which is why it sits far above raw egocentric listings. Commercial licence.
Source
Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 10000 Hour Egocentric Video Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Robot operator providing teleoperated demonstrations at Physical Intelligence (San Francisco)
Price
Compensation: $25/hour + benefits package
per hour
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Full-time, on-site; the operator's demonstrations are the training data for PI's robot foundation models.
Source
Physical Intelligence on Ashby, Robot Operator
The payer's own page
Robot operator doing VR teleoperation for Toyota Research Institute (via HireArt)
Price
32.50 - 37.50 USD Per Hour
per hour (paid to the operator)
When
Aug 2026
What to know
US on-site labour cost inside teleoperation data, before rigs, QA and vendor margin.
Source
HireArt job listing (Toyota Research Institute)
The payer's own page
Asia Residential Teleoperation Video Dataset (Merit Data): about 600 teleoperation demonstration recordings, about 20 hours, residential scenes
Price
$60,800
per dataset of about 600 recordings (about 20 hours)
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Asking price on a marketplace, listed 2026-07-29; counts are the seller's approximations and the page also labels the data CC0, so read the licence before relying on it.
Source
Opendatabay, Asia Residential Teleoperation Video Dataset (Merit Data)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Merit Data South Asia Residential Mono Egocentric Video Dataset, ~800 hours / ~10,000 iPhone recordings, 4K and 1080p
Price
$63,300
per dataset of ~800 hours
When
Jul 2026
What to know
The volume is stated as approximate. The licence is shown as CC0, which is unusual for a paid set.
Source
Opendatabay, Merit Data listing: South Asia Residential Mono Egocentric Video Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 38K+ Hours IMU Egocentric Video Dataset, wearable first-person video with accelerometer and gyroscope streams
Price
$560,100
per dataset of 38K+ hours
When
Jul 2026
What to know
The seller notes the final price varies with requirements.
Source
Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 38K+ Hours IMU Egocentric Video Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
In-house collector recording task demonstrations and testing new tasks and hardware (Sunday Robotics, Redwood City, evening shift)
Price
$35 per hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Fixed 40-hour week on site; compare the remote per-approved-hour model on the same board.
Source
Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (in-house) PM Shift
The payer's own page
Human annotation of egocentric robotics video (Macrodata benchmark, cited by Perceptron)
Price
roughly $50 per video-hour
per video-hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Perceptron says its automated profile is 10 to 15 times cheaper, which implies about $3 to $5 per video-hour for machine labels.
Source
Perceptron, Introducing Perceptron Egocentric API
A vendor's published price guide
2,000-demonstration bimanual imitation-learning dataset for one task family (DataXpower planning figure)
Price
approximately $110,000-$215,000 including QA overhead
per program of 2,000 demonstrations
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Assumes 3 demonstrations an hour and 75% acceptance; a planning estimate, not a quote.
Source
DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide
A vendor's published price guide
Collection of 5,000 whole-body humanoid demonstrations (one program)
Price
$250,000-$750,000 for the data collection phase alone
per program
When
Jul 2026
What to know
A planning estimate, not a quote; 2,000 bimanual demos are put at $110,000 to $215,000 including QA.
Source
DataXpower
A vendor's published price guide
Bimanual ALOHA-style teleoperation program, managed by DataXpower
Price
$40-80 per hour of collected data
per hour of collected data
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Acceptance rates of 70 to 85% are stated for bimanual programs.
Source
DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide
A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric wearable program with annotation (head and wrist cameras), managed by DataXpower
Price
$25-60 per hour of collected data
per hour of collected data
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Includes annotation; raw wearable video without it is put at $25 to $40 an hour.
Source
DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide
A vendor's published price guide
Full humanoid multi-sensor program (mocap suits or exoskeletons, F/T and IMU), managed by DataXpower
Price
$80-150 per hour of collected data
per hour of collected data
When
Jul 2026
What to know
The top of the vendor price ladder; sensor-dense setups are said to cost 3 to 5 times a single-camera RGB program.
Source
DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide
A vendor's published price guide
Complex humanoid whole-body demonstration (DataXpower benchmark)
Price
often $50-150 per demonstration
per demonstration
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Vendor benchmark from its own programs; the same guide puts full humanoid multi-sensor capture at $80 to $150 per hour.
Source
DataXpower
A vendor's published price guide
Simple single-arm teleoperation program (pick-and-place, sorting), managed by DataXpower
Price
$15-30 per hour of collected data
per hour of collected data
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Vendor benchmark; the cheapest teleoperation tier, below most US operators' hourly pay, so it implies offshore labour.
Source
DataXpower, humanoid robot data collection cost guide
A vendor's published price guide
First-person household video data collection, United States (participating states)
Price
$13 to $15 per hour
per hour of qualifying recorded video
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Pay is based on qualifying recorded video, so the hour is an hour of accepted footage.
Source
OpenTrain AI, First-Person Household Video Data Collector
The payer's own page
Worked budget for a 10,000-hour teleoperation dataset with language annotation for a VLA model (DexSet)
Price
~$646,000, or $64.60 per usable annotated hour
per program (10,000 usable hours)
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Built from a $42 blended raw rate ($525,000 capture), $100,000 language annotation and $21,000 storage and delivery; a planning figure, not a deal.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Annotation passes on robot data, added to any capture modality (DexSet benchmark)
Price
$8 to $25 per hour extra
per hour of data
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Add-on price; Welo Data pays Philippine annotators $3.50 an hour for comparable robot-video labelling.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Dense object masks or contact annotation on robot data (DexSet per-pass price)
Price
$18 to $25 per data hour
per data hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Most expensive annotation pass listed.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Collector labour inside egocentric video capture (DexSet cost structure)
Price
$10 to $26 per hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Hardware adds $1 to $4 and QA $5 to $10 an hour, for $15 to $40 total; collectors in India and Malaysia are paid $1 to $4.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Language-instruction labelling of robot data (DexSet per-pass price)
Price
$8 to $12 per data hour
per data hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Cheapest annotation pass; subtask segmentation is $10 to $16 per data hour on the same page.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Multi-view exocentric capture for robot learning (DexSet benchmark)
Price
$20 to $50 per hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Varies with camera count and calibration; a vendor's own benchmark.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Operator labour inside teleoperated bimanual data (DexSet cost structure)
Price
$18 to $38 per hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Vendor's own labour cost; the same page puts rig amortisation at $4 to $9 and QA at $6 to $12 an hour, for $28 to $60 per raw hour all in.
Source
DexSet, Robot Training Data Costs and Pricing: The Complete 2026 Guide
A vendor's published price guide
Teleoperation demonstrations for robots
Price
$28 to $60 per raw hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
A collection vendor's own benchmark per raw hour; 10 to 30 percent of episodes fail QA, so the cost per usable hour is higher. The earlier row read $28 to $200 with no quote; the page states $28 to $60.
Source
DexSet pricing guide
A vendor's published price guide
First-person video of manual work, in bulk
Price
$2 to $5 an hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
About 90% is discarded by the buyer. Collection rates in India fell about 30% in the first half of 2026 as supply grew.
Source
Flikforge
Press report
Indian garment worker wearing a head camera through a factory shift
Price
about Rs 400 daily
per day
When
Jul 2026
What to know
The factory, not the worker, is paid by the hour; the same article says rates fell 30% from January to June 2026.
Source
StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom
Press report
Annotated Indian egocentric footage resold to global robotics labs
Price
$15-50 (Rs 1,419-4,730) per hour
per hour of video
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Against about $5 an hour paid to the factory, so most of the value is captured by the packager abroad.
Source
StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom
Press report
Raw egocentric video hours from India, priced by task complexity (Human Archive)
Price
$1-10 per hour (Rs 95-946)
per hour of video
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Raw-data price before packaging; the same article says packaged data resells abroad at $15 to $50 per hour and collection rates fell 30% from January to June 2026.
Source
StartupFeed
Press report
Payment from egocentric-data startups to an Indian factory whose workers wear cameras (RoBoEra figure)
Price
about Rs 450-500 per hour
per hour
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Per RoBoEra's founder; the article does not say whether the hour is a worker-hour or a recorded hour.
Source
StartupFeed, egocentric data India robot training boom
Press report
On-site collector wearing a first-person camera while doing household activities (Appen/CrowdGen, Kuala Lumpur, 4-day project)
Price
Compensation: USD 3.60 per hour
per hour
When
Jun 2026
What to know
9 to 12 June 2026, 9am to 6pm daily, device provided on site; collectors pay their own transport.
Source
Appen on Lever, EGO Embodied Data Collector Short-Term Project Contractor
The payer's own page
Recording short videos of everyday household or professional tasks with a recording headstrap for robot training (MicroAGI, Shift app)
Price
$20 per hour plus bonuses
per hour (paid to the recorder, plus bonuses)
When
May 2026
What to know
Ars Technica relays what the Shift app website offers recorders ('supposedly getting paid'); the Shift site itself (joinshift.us) needs a browser and was not read. Traders Union (15 Oct 2026) repeats Shift pay as 'up to $30 an hour' with no primary source, so that figure is not recorded. Ars also reports that the site suggests more than 10,000 operators were paid more than $5 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
Source
Ars Technica
Press report
First-person household chores video capture, Latin America
Price
$6/hour USD of accepted footage
per hour of accepted footage
When
May 2026
What to know
Claru says most contributors earn about $40 a day (6 to 7 hours of footage) or $300 a week; 90% hand visibility required.
Source
Claru, Egocentric Household Tasks Capture (Latin America) job listing
The payer's own page
Real-robot teleoperation data in China, cost per task episode from equipment amortisation and sundries
Price
单任务每次的数据成本大概在3-5元
per task episode
When
May 2026
What to know
One year's amortisation of a teleoperation robot plus sundries, before most equipment, site and operator costs, so a floor on production cost.
Source
Huxiu, reprinting Shenxiang: 终于，具身智能的真机数据难题有了新解法
Press report
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam
Price
$5/hour USD
per hour
When
May 2026
What to know
Lowest of Claru's geo tiers, one third of the US rate.
Source
Claru, Garage Capture (Asia) job listing
The payer's own page
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, Canada
Price
$10/hour USD
per hour
When
May 2026
What to know
Same program as the US listing at two thirds of the US rate.
Source
Claru, Garage Capture (Canada) job listing
The payer's own page
First-person garage and workshop task video capture, United States
Price
$15/hour USD
per hour
When
May 2026
What to know
Smartphone on head mount; sessions 30 to 90 minutes; two to four captures a week typical.
Source
Claru, Garage Capture (US) job listing
The payer's own page
Egocentric (first-person) video collection by workers in India for Human Archive
Price
a base rate of $1 per hour
per hour (paid to the collector)
When
May 2026
What to know
Collector pay only; TechCrunch cites the Economic Times that rival collectors pay about ₹250 to ₹400 (roughly $2.63 to $4.20) per hour.
Source
TechCrunch
Press report
Egocentric data collection workers in India paid by Human Archive's competitors
Price
₹250 to ₹400 per hour (roughly $2.63 to $4.20)
per hour
When
May 2026
What to know
Two to four times Human Archive's own $1 base rate; Human Archive says its on-the-ground presence lets it pay less.
Source
TechCrunch, Human Archive taps into India's services startups (citing the Economic Times)
Press report
Crowd-platform (unmanaged) video collection in India
Price
India at $2-6 per hour
per hour of footage
When
May 2026
What to know
Unmanaged crowd rates (Vietnam $3 to $8, Philippines $3 to $7 in the same guide); consistent with the $1 to $10 raw egocentric prices reported from India.
Source
DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam
A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric video collection in the UK and EU
Price
$35-55 per hour
per hour of captured footage
When
May 2026
What to know
Includes the cost of labour rules for field work, per the vendor.
Source
DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam
A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric video collection from US vendors, comparable quality
Price
$30-45 per hour
per hour of captured footage
When
May 2026
What to know
A competitor's view of US pricing, so it may be set high; geography alone moves the price two to three times.
Source
DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam
A vendor's published price guide
Managed indoor egocentric (first-person) video collection in Vietnam
Price
$12-18 per hour
per hour of captured footage
When
May 2026
What to know
The vendor's own Vietnam rate, inclusive of crew, hardware and QA; it sets this against $30 to $45 from US vendors.
Source
DataX Power, Video data collection cost in Vietnam
A vendor's published price guide
Data collector teleoperating robot arms through diverse tasks at Dyna Robotics (Redwood City)
Price
$30 – $32 per hour
per hour
When
May 2026
What to know
Contract role with possible conversion; duties are manual teleoperation plus annotating recorded data.
Source
Dyna Robotics on Ashby, Data Collection Operator
The payer's own page
Hourly wages for human data collection for robot training (people recording everyday tasks), industry estimate by region
Price
anywhere between $5 and $20
per hour (wages, depending on the region)
When
Apr 2026
What to know
An analyst's account (Interact Analysis) of the industry's labour cost for human-data collection, not a named employer's posted rate.
Source
CNN (via KVIA), How filming your chores could train the android butlers of the future
Press report
At-home recording of household tasks for humanoid robot training (micro1, Nigeria)
Price
$15 an hour
per hour (paid to the recorder)
When
Apr 2026
What to know
One worker's rate; micro1's CEO told the same outlet robotics companies spend more than $100 million a year buying such data.
Source
MIT Technology Review
Press report
Operator collecting humanoid robot data in VR (1X, listed under Kind Humanoid, San Carlos, day shift)
Price
USD 26-40 / hour
per hour
When
Apr 2026
What to know
Filed under Kind Humanoid on the board, but the description is 1X's; closed to applications when read, posted 6+ months earlier. 1X's current swing-shift operator band is $28 to $36.
Source
Khosla Ventures job board, Kind Humanoid: Operator, Data Collection (Day Shift)
The payer's own page
Senior operator collecting humanoid robot data in VR, in lab and home settings (1X, listed under Kind Humanoid, San Carlos)
Price
USD 36-46 / hour
per hour
When
Apr 2026
What to know
The board files it under Kind Humanoid but the description opens 'About 1X'; posted 6+ months before reading. Operators also annotate what they collect. The highest US operator band found.
Source
Khosla Ventures job board, Kind Humanoid: Senior Operator - Data Collection (Day Shift)
The payer's own page
Production cost of one usable bimanual assembly demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)
Price
Bimanual Assembly: $10.00 total per usable demo
per usable demonstration
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Production cost of one usable dexterous manipulation demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)
Price
Dexterous Manipulation: $20.00 total per usable demo
per usable demonstration
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Production cost of one usable simple pick-place demonstration, all components (Robotics Center cost model)
Price
Simple Pick-Place: $3.75 total per usable demo
per usable demonstration
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Hardware amortisation, operator labour, QA, post-processing and the 20 to 30% discarded, as the vendor models it (columns: simple pick-place, bimanual assembly, dexterous manipulation).
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Contact-rich bimanual robot demonstration episode (Robotics Center cost guide)
Price
$25-$35
per episode
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Vendor's published range for the hardest tier in its guide.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Simple pick-and-place robot demonstration episode (Robotics Center cost guide)
Price
$8-$15
per episode
When
Mar 2026
What to know
A vendor's published market range per episode, above its own custom-collection list ($0.50 to $1 for 5-second episodes), so the guide prices longer, quality-filtered episodes.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 2,000 demonstrations (Robotics Center)
Price
$20,000 for 2,000 demos
per programme of 2,000 demonstrations
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 50 demonstrations (Robotics Center)
Price
$2,500 for 50 demos
per programme of 50 demonstrations
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 500 demonstrations (Robotics Center)
Price
$8,000 for 500 demos
per programme of 500 demonstrations
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Managed teleoperation collection of 5,000 demonstrations (Robotics Center)
Price
$35,000 for 5,000 demos
per programme of 5,000 demonstrations
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Vendor's managed price by programme size (columns: size, DIY cost per demo, managed cost per demo, DIY total, managed total); the per-demo price falls about sevenfold from pilot to 5,000 demos.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Production-grade robot training dataset of 500 or more demonstrations (Robotics Center cost guide)
Price
$50,000-$200,000 for 500+ demonstrations
per dataset programme
When
Mar 2026
What to know
All-in programme cost including hardware, engineering and re-collection; the count is a floor (500+), so no per-demonstration figure is derived.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV) blog, How Much Does Robot Data Collection Cost in 2026?
A vendor's published price guide
Robot operator doing teleoperation and data collection at Skild AI (Pittsburgh)
Price
Base Salary Range $18 to $20 USD
per hour (stated as a base range; hourly by magnitude)
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Same duties as the San Mateo role at about two thirds of the pay; Skild also lists an India operator role with no rate.
Source
Skild AI on Greenhouse, Robot Operator - Pittsburgh
The payer's own page
One motion-capture clip made in-house with an inertial suit (Rokoko, Perception Neuron), after cleanup
Price
$5–$50 after cleanup
per clip
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Own production cost on $3,000 to $6,000 of hardware; quality below optical capture.
Source
MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
One day of a professional mid-tier optical motion-capture studio (OptiTrack or Vicon)
Price
$1,500–$3,000/day
per one-day session
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Day hire of studio and technical direction; smaller studios $500 to $900, top tier $3,000 to $5,000 or more, facial capture $500 to $2,000 a day extra. Hours per day not stated, so no hourly figure.
Source
MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Skilled motion-capture editor time for cleaning raw capture
Price
$75–$150/hour
per hour
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Cleanup typically takes 2 to 8 times the raw capture time per clip, so it often costs more than the capture.
Source
MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
One motion-capture clip from a professional optical studio session, after cleanup
Price
$50–$200+ after cleanup
per clip
When
Mar 2026
What to know
A mocap vendor's 2026 guide; studio sessions run $1,500 to $5,000 a day and cleanup takes 2 to 8 times the capture time.
Source
MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
One cleaned motion-capture animation bought in a pre-made pack
Price
$0.50–$3 per clip
per clip
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Off-the-shelf game-animation packs ($30 to $500 a pack); this seller's licence bars AI or machine-learning use without written permission.
Source
MoCap Online, How Much Does Motion Capture Cost? Complete Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)
Price
$118/hour
per hour of labelled data
When
Mar 2026
What to know
March 2026, from the vendor's own benchmark dataset. A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperator time bought from operators in India, the Philippines and Eastern Europe
Price
$22 to $55/hour
per operator hour
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Rates on the operator marketplace the report draws on; what a buyer pays per operator hour, not what the operator nets.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Robot teleoperator time bought from US-based operators with domain expertise
Price
$65 to $120/hour
per operator hour
When
Mar 2026
What to know
About two to three times US robot-operator wages ($25 to $36 on postings), the vendor margin and overhead on top of pay.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Egocentric POV video of household tasks for humanoid training datasets, Philippines
Price
$3 - $15 per hour
per hour
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Employer not named; date is the listing's 'date updated'.
Source
OnlineJobs.ph, Egocentric Video Data Collection
The payer's own page
Labelling autonomous-vehicle driving data (validating AI pre-labels on edge cases)
Price
about $3 to $6 per hour
per hour worked
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Relayed from Business Insider, which estimates under 5,000 AV-specific labellers worldwide, TaskUs just under 2,000. A secondary summary; the original was not reached.
Source
Let's Data Science, summarising Business Insider on robotaxi data labelling
Press report
Remote worker filming their own household chores first-person with a head-mounted phone for robotics (micro1)
Price
Pay: $8 per hour (Fixed hourly rate)
per hour
When
Jan 2026
What to know
1,000 openings, now closed; a screening question on the same page asks applicants to accept $6 an hour, so the effective rate may have been lower.
Source
micro1, Daily Routine Video Assistant
The payer's own page
First-person video of manual work, captured to a spec
Price
$15 to $40 an hour
per hour
When
Jan 2026
What to know
Raw capture runs $15 to $22 an hour; calibrated and fully annotated footage $30 to $40. Buyers reject 15 to 25% at quality review.
Source
DexSet pricing guide
A vendor's published price guide
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)
Price
$136/hour
per hour of labelled data
When
Dec 2025
What to know
Q4 2025. A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Remote collector recording more complex household-task demonstrations after screening (Sunday Robotics)
Price
Up to $60 per hour of approved data
per hour of approved data
When
Nov 2025
What to know
Ceiling for complex tasks; paid via Stripe within 2 to 3 business days.
Source
Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (remote)
The payer's own page
Remote collector recording household-task demonstrations on provided hardware (Sunday Robotics, screening week)
Price
$30 per hour of approved data
per hour of approved data
When
Nov 2025
What to know
Paid per approved hour of data, not per hour worked, so rejected footage is the collector's loss; excludes CA, NY, MA, NJ and IL.
Source
Sunday on Ashby, Memory Developer (remote)
The payer's own page
JoinAI POV Robotic Behavior Video Dataset, 1,000,000+ generated first-person 6 to 8 s clips, 2,000+ hours, 1080p
Price
$39,500
per dataset of 2,000+ hours
When
Oct 2025
What to know
Generated (synthetic) POV video for VLA training. The description also carries a pasted line about 20,000 images that does not match this product.
Source
Opendatabay, JoinAI listing: POV Robotic Behavior Video Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Robot operator doing teleoperation and data collection at Skild AI (San Mateo)
Price
Base Salary Range $25 to $30 USD
per hour (stated as a base range; hourly by magnitude)
When
Jun 2025
What to know
First published 2025-06-25 and still open on the day read; operators must meet quality and quantity bars on the data they collect.
Source
Skild AI on Greenhouse, Robot Operator
The payer's own page
Skilled participant recorded in first- and third-person video for the Ego-Exo4D dataset
Price
US$20 in gift cards for each hour
per hour of recording
When
Sep 2024
What to know
Academic consortium led by Meta; plus a $20 travel reimbursement. A pre-boom reference point for egocentric capture pay.
Source
arXiv, Ego-Exo4D (v4)
The payer's own page
Data collection operator wearing a motion-capture suit and VR headset for Tesla's Optimus program (Palo Alto)
Price
$25.25 to $48 per hour
per hour
When
Aug 2024
What to know
Reported from Tesla's careers page, which blocks automated reading; the role walks test routes 7+ hours a day. The only motion-capture pay figure found.
Source
Decrypt, Tesla Will Pay Up to $48 an Hour to Capture Your Movements
Press report
Humanoid robot pilot wearing teleoperation equipment to guide Figure's robot and upload the data (San Jose)
Price
$32.00 per hour
per hour (6-month fixed term)
When
May 2024
What to know
First published 2024-05-14 and still open, unchanged, on the day read; Figure is also opening Data Creator units in Mexico City and São Paulo.
Source
Figure AI on Greenhouse, Humanoid Robot Pilot
The payer's own page
Fully loaded cost of one hour of labelled, RLDS-formatted robot manipulation teleoperation data (Robotics Center index)
Price
$340/hour
per hour of labelled data
When
Mar 2024
What to know
Early 2024 (Q1 2024 on the report's chart). A vendor index from operator marketplace pricing: the cost fell about 65% from $340 to $118 in two years as leader-follower rigs dropped under $2,000.
Source
Robotics Center (RCSV), State of Robotics 2026
A vendor's published price guide

What yours might fetch

A first answer or two gives a range. The full valuation asks the rest and shows where every figure comes from.

What is your data worth?

Kind of data

Hours recorded

Kind of recording

$6,000to$16,000

On two answers, against 3 public prices. An indication, not an offer.

Full valuation

No data upload
No account
Free

Why labs pay for it

Robots cannot learn manipulation from the internet. They need to see hands doing real tasks from the worker's point of view, and to be driven through tasks by a person.

SplitRobotics companies spend over $100 million a year on it, but bulk first-person footage has collapsed to $2 to $5 an hour with about 90% discarded, and collection rates in India fell about 30% in the first half of 2026.

Who holds it

Factories and workshops
Trades and service businesses
Robotics teams
Collection vendors

What it looks like

Head-camera footage of skilled manual work
Teleoperated robot demonstrations
Motion capture of whole-body tasks
Machine, PLC and sensor logs

Raises the price

Skilled trades and unusual settings
Calibrated cameras, depth and hand tracking
Annotation of every action
Teleoperation on real hardware

Lowers it

Undifferentiated bulk footage of everyday chores
Workers and bystanders who never consented
Footage a buyer will discard at quality review

The rights question

Every worker filmed must consent, and so must anyone else in view. Footage of a client's premises needs the client's agreement.

How we take it to buyers

We sell to a buyer's spec, not in bulk: a request first, then collection or an existing archive that matches it.

Who buys it

HUMXN Research Labs

"$250K+ Where typical data deals for a single company start, with larger archives reaching the millions." Workers earn $20 per hour of approved footage.

HUMXN, sell company data page

Protege

A revenue share per deal, by the agreed partnership terms.

Protege, data providers page

Sieve

Pays after delivery is checked ("Sieve Checks them, then pays"); recording is paid per hour and no rate is published.

Sieve, partners page

Every buyer and what it publishes

Where physical-world data comes from

The whole supply map

1,003,672 trajectories (~43.8T)
AgiBot World Beta has 1,003,672 robot trajectories (about 43.8T of data) under a non-commercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Reaches buyers: Open download (non-commercial license)
GitHub, OpenDriveLab/AgiBot-World, Mar 2025
76k demonstration trajectories or 350h
DROID holds 76,000 teleoperated demonstration trajectories, or 350 hours of robot interaction data.
Reaches buyers: Open download
DROID project site, A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset, 19 Mar 2024
3,670 hours
Ego4D holds 3,670 hours of first-person daily-life video from 923 participants in 74 locations across 9 countries.
Reaches buyers: Open download (licensed)
Ego4D, official dataset site, Oct 2021
more than 600,000
Factories worldwide installed more than 600,000 new industrial robots in 2025.
Reaches buyers: Not reaching buyers (factory data stays with operators)
International Federation of Robotics, Five Million Robots now Operate in Factories Globally, 24 Sep 2026
5 million units
About 5 million industrial robots were in operation worldwide at the end of 2025, up 9% on the year.
Reaches buyers: Not reaching buyers (factory data stays with operators)
International Federation of Robotics, Five Million Robots now Operate in Factories Globally, 24 Sep 2026
over 1 million hours
Meta pretrained V-JEPA 2 on over 1 million hours of internet video, then post-trained its robot variant on under 62 hours of DROID robot video.
Reaches buyers: In-house collection (buyer volume)
arXiv, V-JEPA 2 (Meta), 11 Jun 2025