PhD/MScR in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Animation at IPAB University of Edinburgh in United Kingdom

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in Multiscale Scientific Machine Learning Digital Twins for High-Torque Electric Propulsion under Extreme Duty Cycles . This studentship sits at the intersection of electric propulsion, scientific machine learning, and digital-twin development for demanding heavy-duty applications such as maritime vessels, mining equipment, and off-highway machinery. The project addresses a key challenge for zero-e...

Durham University is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in Efficient Physical AI for Real-World Robotics , supported by Intel. The project sits at the intersection of computer science , robotics , machine learning , computer vision , reinforcement learning , embodied AI , and edge AI . The research aims to develop capable, efficient, deployable Physical AI for real robots. Possible directions include robot foundation models, vision-language-action models, long-horizon reasoning and plann...

EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellow at the University of Bristol This is a postdoctoral fellowship for early career researchers in science and engineering who want to develop an independent research programme. Fellows will propose their own bespoke project across the full EPSRC research portfolio, with opportunities for innovative and interdisciplinary work at the frontiers of research. Institution: University of Bristol, School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, Bristol, England, United K...

PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in robotic materials , mechanical metamaterials , active matter physics , and embodied artificial intelligence . The project focuses on self-learning active mechanical networks and will combine table-top robotic experiments with theoretical modelling . Research directions may be tailored to the successful candidate’s interests and expertise, with opportunities to work on decentralized learning, physical reservoir computing, contrastive learning, no...

University of Southampton is advertising a PhD project titled “Multimodal learning and sensor fusion for vessel monitoring using vision and underwater acoustics.” The project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and focuses on combining machine learning , multimodal fusion , underwater acoustics , computer vision , and signal processing to improve vessel detection, characterisation, localisation, and tracking in rivers and coastal waters. The research asks how shore-based cam...