Location: | Edinburgh |
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Salary: | £36,023 to £44,263 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 14th February 2024 |
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Closes: | 28th April 2024 |
FTE and working pattern: 1 FTE, 35hrs per week, Monday-Friday
Contract: 24 Months, Fixed Term
Holiday Entitlement: 33 days annual leave plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday)
About the Team
Based at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus, the National Robotarium is supported by £21 million from the UK Government, and £1.4 million from the Scottish Government as part of the Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland City Region Deal. The National Robotarium will translate cutting-edge research into technologies to create disruptive innovation in an expanding global market. This is an exciting opportunity, where the role-holder will have the ability to play a crucial role in a research team for a large commercial project, researching contact-implicit loco-manipulation as part of the RoMI lab group.
The Robot Motor Intelligence (RoMI) (www.romi.org) is a young lab that is part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Heriot-Watt University. It is dedicated to the development of motor/athletic intelligence in legged robots. Our mission is to identify computational principles that describe motor and perceptive units. We advance numerical optimization for robotics, optimal control, contact physics and deep learning to empower legged robots to perform rich-sensory and multi-contact motions in real time, including in unstructured environments.
Purpose of Role
As a Research Associate in contact-implicit loco-manipulation, you will play a pivotal role in pioneering the next generation of contact-implicit motion generation approaches for loco-manipulation in legged robots. Your responsibilities will include enhancing loco-manipulation skills in quadruped robots, creating high-quality open-source software, and pushing the boundaries of robotic capabilities.
Drawing upon your extensive research experience, you will learn and work both closely and independently with your peers and collaborate internationally with researchers from a variety of stakeholder groups. This post is a fixed-term contract associated with a commercial research project.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Essential & Desirable Criteria
Applicants must hold a PhD/DPhil in robotics, computer science, machine learning, informatics, AI, or a closely related field, or be close to completion or have an equivalent experience.
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How to Apply
Applications can be submitted up to midnight (UK time) on Sunday 28th April 2024.
Please submit your CV via the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment.
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