Instawork

Gig app, HQ United States, founded 2015. Estimates industry collected ~1M hours of robot training data in 2025 and projects 20M hours in 2026.

Data it collects

Workers in

United StatesIndia

Scale

• Robotics certification reached 20,000+ Pros in first weeks (2026-04-16)

Pay

• Bengaluru Data Collector & Annotator: Rs 25,000/month fixed plus daily incentives
• $2.27 to $3.41/h Bengaluru vendors filming with Instawork newslaundry.com ↗ Major outlet
• $1.64/h Data Collector & Annotator (chest iPhone video), Bengaluru greenhouse.io ↗ Secondary

Events

• 2026-04-16 Instawork launches Robotics Lab and robot-data certification businessinsider.com ↗ Major outlet

Sources

• Instawork estimates the industry collected roughly 100,000 hours of robotic training data in 2024 and 1 million hours last year.businessinsider.com ↗ Major outlet 2026-04-16
• • ₹25,000 fixed monthly salarygreenhouse.io ↗ Secondary 2026-08-27

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