Robotics Center profile: fixed-price robot data collection

Contents

1. What Robotics Center does
2. Published evidence
3. Strengths and limits
4. Pricing
5. Questions to ask Robotics Center
6. Sources

Type	Data collection lab
Headquarters	San Francisco, US
Pricing	Published
Website	roboticscenter.ai

Robotics Center is a San Francisco robotics hub, founded by Jerry Huang, that sells hardware, runs data-collection campaigns and offers a teleoperation platform⁠1About Robotics CenterRobotics Center. It is one of the few providers in this guide that publishes its prices⁠2Custom robot data collection: teleoperation, annotation and QA at scaleRobotics Center.

Best for: Teams that want a fixed-price first dataset, collected by qualified operators with documented timing quality.

Not the right fit for: Fleets that need operators on deployed robots, shift after shift.

What Robotics Center does

A data campaign starts with a kickoff that turns the task into a collection brief with acceptance criteria. The team then configures the robot, operator interface, cameras and safety limits, and puts every sensor on a shared clock. Operators rehearse the task and pass a proficiency test before collecting in supervised sprints, and every episode is checked for task completion, timestamp integrity, frame loss and schema consistency before delivery in HDF5, RLDS, LeRobot or a custom schema⁠2Custom robot data collection: teleoperation, annotation and QA at scaleRobotics Center.

Collection runs on its supported hardware, including OpenArm, UR3e and UR5e, Unitree G1, xArm and Kinova Gen3; a customer can ship in its own robot if it is ROS 2-compatible⁠2Custom robot data collection: teleoperation, annotation and QA at scaleRobotics Center. For teams that want to collect themselves, it sells hardware and a recording-ready DataKit, and offers a full data-to-policy platform⁠3Teleoperation platformRobotics Center.

Published evidence

• Quality certificate (provider-reported). Each dataset ships with a timing report stating camera-action sync under 5 ms, cross-camera skew under 1 ms and a frame-drop rate under 0.1%, calculated from delivered episodes.⁠2Custom robot data collection: teleoperation, annotation and QA at scaleRobotics Center

Strengths and limits

Strengths

• Published prices: a 20-demonstration pilot for $2,500 and a 100-demonstration campaign for $8,000.
• Operators qualify on each task before their episodes count, and quality is tracked per operator.
• Delivers HDF5, RLDS, LeRobot or a custom schema, with a certificate of camera-action sync, skew, frame drop and drift.

Limits

• Collection happens in its own labs on supported hardware; your robot can be shipped in if it is ROS 2-compatible.
• A campaign service, not ongoing operating coverage for a deployed fleet.
• Throughput figures, such as demonstrations per day by interface, are its own estimates.

Choose another option if: Your robot cannot leave your site, or you need operators to keep a deployed fleet working.

Pricing

Published: $2,500 pilot (20 demonstrations), $8,000 campaign (100 demonstrations); a recording-ready DataKit for $2,500; a full platform from $5,000 to $15,000 setup plus $2,000 to $3,000 a month.

Questions to ask Robotics Center

• Can the pilot run on our robot, and what does shipping and integration add?
• Which interface would you use for our task, and what daily rate do you expect?
• What happens to episodes that fail the timing thresholds?
• Can the same operators continue from pilot to campaign?

See how Robotics Center compares with the other providers in the main guide.

Sources

1. About Robotics Center. Robotics Center. Accessed 8 Nov 2026.
2. Custom robot data collection: teleoperation, annotation and QA at scale. Robotics Center. Accessed 8 Nov 2026.
3. Teleoperation platform. Robotics Center. Accessed 8 Nov 2026.

Further reading

• Buyer's guide · Updated quarterlyThe best teleoperation companies in 2026An analysis of nine companies that operate robots remotely or collect robot training data, compared on seven criteria, with the evidence behind each one and the established path to a first dataset.
• Guide · CostWhat teleoperated robot data collection costs in 2026Few providers publish prices, and those that do quote in different units. These are the published figures, what moves them and the one number that makes quotes comparable.
• Guide · The marketWhat teleoperation companies do, and which kind you needOne word covers four different businesses. This guide separates them, explains the two jobs they do and shows what each kind hands back at the end of a shift.