PhD in Foundation Models for Interaction Modeling in Autonomous Mobile Robotics CNRS in France

Open PhD position at the Rainbow team, IRISA/Inria Rennes, France, on visual- and haptic-based control of aerial robots for the manipulation of articulated objects. The project focuses on aerial robotics, robot manipulation, visual servoing, haptic sensing, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and control for tasks such as opening doors and valves, assembling structures, and interacting with dynamic or uncertain environments. Supervision is by Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Marco Tognon (Rainbo...

Fully funded PhD position in micro-robotics and multi-material topology optimization at the FEMTO-ST Institute , Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, France. The project is framed by the RoboTop ANR-funded project and focuses on the structural shaping of fully integrated microrobots using topology optimization. The research combines analytical modeling , numerical simulation , programming , and experimental validation to design microrobots with integrated actuation and sensing capabilities. The wo...

Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Information Sciences, Intelligent Robotics and AI Field (Kanazaki Laboratory) is recruiting 2–4 Specially Appointed Research Fellows in intelligent robotics and physical AI . The research theme covers robot system construction and control, 3D spatial understanding, multimodal recognition, and behavior generation, with applications to humanoid robots, dual-arm robots, and mobile robots. The lab aims to develop robots that can autonomously perceive, judge, an...

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden is hiring a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The project focuses on physics-guided foundation models for time-series data , with applications in safety-critical systems and automotive applications . The research spans the full pipeline from fundamental machine learning questions to training on real-world data and validating methods in industrial settings. This opportunity is a strong fit for applicants inte...

NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) is advertising a PhD Research Fellow in Self-Organising Maritime Autonomy at the Department of Marine Technology in Trondheim, Norway. The project sits at the intersection of robotics , artificial intelligence , autonomous systems , marine technology, and control-oriented research. The successful candidate will work on resilient coordination architectures for heterogeneous fleets of autonomous underwater and surface vehicles, including self-o...