Lead Researcher: Embodied AI & Human-Robot Collaboration

A*STAR RESEARCH ENTITIES; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cognitive and Human-like AI group at the Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore invites applications to conduct R&D in Embodied AI (EAI) to endow robots with human-like intelligence for collaboration with humans on real-world tasks.

You will contribute to developing collaborative intelligence for robots in manufacturing, trade and connectivity through research, design, and deployment of advanced perception, reasoning, and learning systems.

Qualifications

• PhD in Robotics or related field (e.g., Computer Vision, NLP, ML, Cognitive Science).
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
• Experience with ROS, Linux or other robotic middleware is an advantage.
• Experience in dataset curation and fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action or Vision-Language Models for robotics is an advantage.
• Past work in 3D vision, spatial reasoning, human-robot interaction or related areas is an advantage.
• Good communication skills; team player and resourceful.

Responsibilities

• Research in human-robot interaction involving multimodal perception, world representation, decision making, learning and behaviour.
• Design EAI algorithms for safe, fluid collaboration between humans and robots in shared workspaces.
• Development, testing and integration of HRI modules for real-world robotics applications.
• Collaborate with researchers on scientific writing, algorithm development, testing and deployment of intelligence systems.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS

Linux

Communication

Education

PhD in Robotics or related field

Tools

ROS

Linux

Job description

The Cognitive and Human-like AI group at the Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore invites applications to conduct R&D in Embodied AI (EAI) to endow robots with human-like intelligence for collaboration with humans on real-world tasks.

You will contribute to developing collaborative intelligence for robots in manufacturing, trade and connectivity through research, design, and deployment of advanced perception, reasoning, and learning systems.