Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Robotics and AI) / Tutkijatohtori (Robotiikka ja tekoäly)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Robotics and AI) / Tutkijatohtori (Robotiikka ja tekoäly)
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Within the unit of Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering, faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, we are recruiting one (1) postdoctoral researcher. The unit has about 20 professors and 100 research staff in the areas of Robotics, Automation, and Mechanical engineering. Robotics is one of the core areas of education and research of the faculty, in close collaboration with the units of computer science and signal processing. The position is opened in the Cognitive Robotics group.
The Cognitive Robotics Group focuses on robotics and how they can work in close collaboration with people. Research topics include perception for robot manipulation (grasping, assembly), perception for human-robot interaction (speech, visual, learning from demonstration), large and visual-language models for robot manipulation, motion planning and control, software development and safety. All topics have a heavy focus on AI-based methods (e.g., machine or deep learning) and their real-time execution on real robot systems. Research takes inspiration from industrial applications in the areas of manufacturing and inspection & maintenance for large infrastructures (e.g., CERN). The group is led by Prof. Roel Pieters, has a strong network in the European Robotics scene, and good connections to industry that provide challenging use cases.
The group has a well-equipped Robolab and dynamic community with a large group of (post-)doctoral researchers and research assistants.
Job description
We are looking for one (1) Postdoctoral Researcher.
The work will be related to robot manipulation and human-robot collaboration with AI