Robot training data in Nigeria

3 companies with workers here, 4 datasets collected here and 5 sourced events. Reported robot-data pay runs $15 to $15 an hour, 59.1× to 59.1× the local minimum wage.

Work types

Minimum wage

• $44 a month, about $0.25 an hour (ILOSTAT, 2024)

Pay reported

Companies with workers here

Datasets collected here

• Micro1 at-home egocentric chore recording technologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet
• Micro1 egocentric chore video tens of thousands of hours technologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet
• Humyn Labs physical-AI corpus 10,000 hours, 20+ countries humynlabs.ai ↗ Secondary
• Micro1 chore footage tens of thousands of hours technologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet

Events

• 2026-05-07 Nigerian critics say Kled breached data law
  No NDPC registration record found. technext24.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-05-05 Kled AI blocks Nigeria over fraudulent uploads
  Egocentric-video marketplace pulls its app and restricts Nigerian IPs. nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng ↗ Secondary
• 2026-05-04 Kled IP-bans Nigeria
  Data marketplace pulled app citing ~95% fraud; 25,000 users locked out. technext24.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-04-01 MIT Technology Review: gig workers film chores for humanoid training
  Contractors mount phones on their heads to record housework for robot training. technologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2024-03-07 Remotasks exits Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan
  Scale's Remotasks cuts off workers in Kenya without explanation, then shuts down in Nigeria and Pakistan. restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet

On-the-ground evidence

• Micro1Micro1 has hired thousands of contract workers in more than 50 countries, including India, Nigeria, and Argentinatechnologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet
• Remotasks (Scale AI), exited 2024Remotasks has shut down entirely in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan over the last monthrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet

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