Research fellow in reinforcement learning for humanoid robot locomotion

at  Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

WHO WE ARE

At IIT we work enthusiastically to develop human-centered Science and Technology to tackle some of the most pressing societal challenges of our times and transfer these technologies to the production system and society. Our Genoa headquarter is strictly inter-connected with our 11 centers around Italy and two outer-stations based in the US for a truly interdisciplinary experience.

YOUR TEAM

You will be working in a multicultural and multi-disciplinary group, where biomedical, mechanical and electrical engineers, computational scientists, physicists, chemists, biotechnologists and biologists experts collaborate, each with their own expertise, to carry out common research.
The Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence research line is coordinated by Daniele Pucci (https://ami.iit.it/) and is seeking to appoint a fellow researcher that focuses on the reinforcement learning for the locomotion of humanoid robots. The selected candidate will contribute to the ergoCub joint laboratory https://ergocub.eu/ between IIT and INAIL, the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work whose goal is to safeguard workers against physical injuries and occupational diseases. You’ll work in taking the humanoid robot control technologies developed at IIT to the next level, in order to address the fundamental societal challenges that INAIL is aiming to solve: to help reduce injuries in the workplace and facilitate the return to work of people injured at the workplace. This goal needs humanoid robots to locomote in unstructured environments populated by humans, and the fellow will contribute towards this perspective. Beside the above research area, the reinforcement learning methods will be also used for the other research axes of the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence, namely, to: give humanoid robots the ability to fly (https://ami.iit.it/aerial-humanoid-robotics), give humanoid robots the ability to help and collaborate with humans via wearables.

Within the team, your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop software applications for the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence cutting-edge robotics research
• Prepare proof of concept technologies
• Support the research line activities

This open position/research is funded by INAIL within the project: “ErgoCub-2.0 - Gestione integrata, predittiva e responsabile dei profili di rischio nei nuovi contesti lavorativi ibridi: collaborazione uomo-robot e intelligenza artificiale” (CUP J53C2400054005).

• Develop software applications for the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence cutting-edge robotics research
• Prepare proof of concept technologies
• Support the research line activitie