PhD in High-Speed Manipulation Using Compliant and Flexible Robots Inria in France

PhD opportunity in Learning-based Control of Autonomous Robot Manipulation at the University of Agder (UiA) , Faculty of Engineering and Science, Campus Grimstad, in the Robotics and Automation group . The project is supervised by Jing Zhou and focuses on mechatronics , robotics , control theory , machine learning , and advanced visual perception for fully autonomous manipulation tasks. You will work on methods that move beyond simulation and validate them on real robotic platforms at the UiA Mo...

🚀 PhD opportunities are available in control, robotics, and learning-based optimisation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand. The project sits at the intersection of model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) , with applications to safe, efficient, and adaptive controllers for real engineering systems. Research directions include robotic manipulators and high-precision motion control, quadruped robots and loco-manipulation, and energy systems suc...

Postdoc opportunity at Aalborg University in learning-based multi-agent control under uncertainty , with applications to autonomous multi-robot systems operating in dynamic and uncertain environments. The position is hosted by the Department of Electronic Systems in the Automation and Control Section at Aalborg University , Denmark, and is part of the Horizon Europe ROX-6G project . The research is primarily theoretical and focuses on fundamental work in learning-based planning and control of in...

Peng Edward Wang at Case Western Reserve University is looking for a new PhD student to join an NSF-funded project on Anticipatory Robotics: World Model and Generative Planning for Safe, Human-Aligned Autonomy . The research focuses on robotic welding , including developing a welding-specific foundation model to predict welding state evolution under candidate task conditions and torch manipulation, and to optimize and plan safe robotic actions for consistent welding quality. The project also aim...

PhD opportunity in quadruped robot locomotion and control at IMRA Europe and the i3S Laboratory (Université Côte d’Azur / CNRS) in Sophia Antipolis, France . The project is titled Hybrid Control for the Locomotion of a Quadruped Robot on Heterogeneous Terrain and focuses on combining physical model-based control with Reinforcement Learning (RL) for real-world sim-to-real deployment on the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot. Research themes include system modeling , model-based control , robust walking ...