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outstanding, highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to work in
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The position is offered within the PHOLUS project, which is aimed
at designing, building and controlling a high performance, high
efficiency electric platform that will combine a quadruped-legged
base with a twin- armed high dexterity upper body in a
configuration that is inspired by the Centaurs of mythology. This
combination will amalgamate the talents and capabilities of highly
dynamic quadrupedal locomotion over rough and unstructured terrain
with a humanoid-inspired upper body/arms/dexterous hands covered
with tactile sensors to provide a high dexterity bi-manual
manipulative structure. This will allow the PHOLUS robot to
navigate, observe, interact and respond effectively in highly
unstructured outdoor environments and human engineered locations
(e.g. disaster recovery in buildings, access complex
power/process/chemical/oil installations) addressing key issues in
robot robustness and reliability; autonomous operation;
semi-autonomous operation; tele-operation; tactile sensing; active
perception; affordances learning; agile loco-manipulation,
grasping and dexterity; locomotion; whole-body interactions;
whole-body motion planning and control; visualisation; and
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or mechanical engineering (clearly related to machine learning
and/or robotics).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br
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display: inline !important; float: none; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Experience in reinforcement learning,
learning from demonstration, and/or optimal control.<span
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(uni- and bi-manual) manipulation.<span
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manipulation is desirable but not required.<span
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application process can be found at<span
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Leonel Rozo,
Senior postdoctoral researcher
Advanced Robotics Department
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
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