Astro Robotics (Telexistence operator)

Data vendor, HQ Philippines. Telexistence shares the resulting teleoperation data with Physical Intelligence.

Data it collects

Workers in

Philippines

Known buyers

Scale

• About 60 Manila teleoperators controlling shelf-restocking robots in Japan (2025-10-20)

Pay

• $250 to $315 per month per teleoperator
• $1.44 to $1.82/h Robot teleoperator ('pilot'), about 50 robots each restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet

Sources

• Each tele-operator earns between $250 and $315 per month, roughly the same as a call center agentrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2025-10-20
• around 60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japanrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2025-10-20
• The company is providing this information to San Francisco-based startup Physical Intelligencerestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2025-10-20

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method