Temporary Research Assistant

JOB TITLE

Temporary Research Assistant

LOCATION

Worcester

DEPARTMENT NAME

Robotics Engineering - JM

DIVISION NAME

Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Temporary Research Assistant to work closely with PhD students to implement dexterous picking solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities:

The role will focus on developing supervised learning methods for manipulation with a three-finger gripper. This includes accurate object detection, physics-based reasoning, and contextual understanding of the manipulation scene. Experimental evaluation will compare different skill-specific strategies and measure grasping success across varied scene configurations.

Requirements:

Undergraduate degrees in Robotics engineering or equivalent

Related Background should include: C++, Python, ROS, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Path Planning, MoveIt.

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