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PhD & PostDoc Opening in Visual Navigation & Grasping at Home @ TU Vienna


The Vision4Robotics Team (http://v4r.acin.tuwien.ac.at/) at TUW (Technische
Universitaet Wien) invites applications for PhD and PostDoc positions to
start 15 June 2013 or later.

Topics:
- Safe navigation in user homes (developing solutions to challenges at home
such as tight space, reliable localisation, and detecting small obstacles on
the floor using RGB-D sensors)
- Grasping anything from the floor (detecting small objects in RGB-D images,
grasp generation and execution)

The positions are related to EU Projects HOBBIT (http://hobbit-project.eu/)
and Squirrel (starting in 2014). The tasks are to contribute resp. to lead a
team that develops methods to operate robots at home (robots will be newly
designed by Metralabs following the prototypes on the Web-page). The project
goal is to make older users feel safe longer at home and to prevent falls by
cleaning up the floor and by detecting potential risks such as blocked ways
and rolled carpets. The projects are highly visible in the press and will
lead to studies in actual user homes.
Regarding navigation collaboration with the team of Wolfram Burgard at the
University of Freiburg is foreseen.

Applicants are expected to have background and experience in vision and
robotics, excellent coding skills, and excitement to work in a research team.
Salaries follow the Austrian regulations for researchers and start at a total
of 35kEuro resp. 49kEuro annually depending on prior qualification.

Applications with CV and copies of latest works (e.g., top publications,
Extract of Master thesis) should be sent to Markus Vincze
(vincze@acin.tuwien.ac.at). If you need any further details, please ask.
Thank you and best regards


Markus Vincze

Technische Universit?t Wien
Automatisierungs- und Regelungstechnik Institut Prof. Dr.techn. Markus Vincze
Gusshausstr. 27/376
1040 Wien, Austria, Europe
Tel.: +43 158801 376611
Fax: +43 158801 937697
Web: www.acin.tuwien.ac.at & v4r.acin.tuwien.ac.at
email: vincze@acin.tuwien.ac.at

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Call for Fellowships to the three-year PhD Program in BioRobotics

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, announces 14
positions funded with fellowships for admission to the three-year PhD
Program in BioRobotics for the Academic Year 2013-2014

SSSA is a public university where merit and talent count. Excellence in
education and research, internationalization, interaction with the job
market are the objectives of SSSA. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna offers
training and postgraduate courses in Economics and Management, Law,
Political Science, Agricultural Science and Biotechnology, Medicine, and
Industrial and Information Engineering. SSSA is a scientific community
where the academic staff and researchers interact with students through
a continuous exchange of scientific, cultural and intellectual ideas
(www.sssup.it). The PhD Program in BioRobotics is managed by the
BioRobotics Institute. Its mission is to educate the Engineer of the
21st Century: a competent, interdisciplinary, creative inventor and
entrepreneur, able to handle new technological and scientific challenges
(sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it <http://sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it/>).

The Program

The PhD Program in BioRobotics is a three-year course of advanced
studies and supervised research; at the end of the Program, the PhD is
conferred to students who have fulfilled the didactic requirements and
passed a final examination with thesis dissertation.

The Program aims at educating highly competent researchers with the
potential to be leaders in this area. The students will be educated in a
stimulating and multidisciplinary environment, both through high level
courses and through demanding, creative and original research work. PhD
projects will be carried out in very well equipped, state-of-the-art
laboratories (in such fields as micro-engineering, biomedical
engineering, biomimetic robotics, rehabilitation technologies, surgical
robotics and neural engineering) and through individual and team work
performed under the supervision of a full-time faculty.

The students will investigate how biological systems work from an
engineering viewpoint, and will make use of such knowledge to pursue
challenging research projects aimed at modelling, designing and building
novel components and systems for biomedical applications, such as
surgery and rehabilitation. At the end of the PhD Program, students will
possess solid scientific and engineering skills, the ability to conceive
and carry out original research projects, and an autonomous
entrepreneurship spirit.

Admission

Students are admitted to the Program following a successful entrance
examination. Eligible applicants must hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.)
degree or equivalent title and must be under 35 years old. Undergraduate
students may also apply if they graduate before the beginning of the
Course -- November 2013.

The deadline for application is June 27, 2013

Apply at www.bioroboticsinstitute.it or at
www.sssup.it/ist_context.jsp?ID_LINK=10832&area=199

Why study in Pisa?

Pisa, a city of over 200,000 residents in its metropolitan area, is
located in Tuscany, central Italy, close to other historical and
monumental cities like Lucca, Florence, Siena as well as country-side,
beaches and mountains (www.pisaunicaterra.it). Pisa is not only a
welcoming and liveable city, frequented by tourists for its natural
beauty and its monuments, but also an ideal city for students.

The Pisa University System, comprising the University of Pisa, the
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the Scuola Normale Superiore, is
acknowledged to be one of the most prestigious centres of academic
studies and research in Europe, and it promotes a unique model of
multidisciplinary research and education.

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multiple openings at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels


The research group in Intelligent and Interactive Systems
(https://iis.uibk.ac.at/) has multiple openings at the doctoral and
post-doctoral levels:

- Research positions funded by several EU-FP7-ICT "Cognitive Systems,
Interaction and Robotics" projects

- Non-permanent university research staff positions with minor teaching
requirements

For both types of positions, we seek highly-qualified postdoctoral
researchers and talented doctoral students with interest and skills in
at least one of the following areas:

* Robotics:
- grasping and manipulation using one or two dextrous hands
- tactile sensing for grasping and manipulation
- affordance learning: grasping, rolling, pushing, ...
- object placement: stacking, dropping, leaning, ...
* Computer Vision:
- object modeling, recognition and pose tracking using stereo vision
and/or point clouds
- learning action-relevant features; affordance-driven categorization
- human modeling and tracking: hands, face, gaze, markerless human
motion capture
- action recognition

All activities involve probabilistic modeling, machine learning, and a
strong component of human-robot interaction.

Postdoctoral researchers are expected to assume active roles in project
leadership and supervision of junior researchers.

Salaries are internationally competitive and commensurate with
qualification and experience.


The University of Innsbruck, Austria

The history of the University of Innsbruck dates back to 1669. It offers
a complete set of academic curricula and currently counts 28000
students. Founded in 2001, the Department of Computer Science is highly
productive in diverse research domains, and is internationally very well
connected.

Innsbruck is home to 35000 students who imprint a distinctive,
international student atmosphere upon this lively city of
120000. Beautifully located in the Tyrolean Alps, on the Inn river and
surrounded by summits of up to 2718m, Innsbruck offers outstanding
opportunities and quality of life all around the year.


For more information and how to apply see https://iis.uibk.ac.at/jobs.

--
Intelligent and Interactive Systems https://iis.uibk.ac.at/
Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Two PhD positions available at MINES ParisTech in Paris, France


Two PhD positions are available in the robotics laboratory of MINES
ParisTech in Paris:

- 6D Terrestrial SLAM: simultaneous localization and mapping on LiDAR /
Camera mobile system (more details
here<http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Format...AR-Camera/5415>
)
- Hybrid representation and reconstruction of 3D environments from mobile
laser data (more details
here<http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Format...r-mobiles/5416>
)


Best Regards,

Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud
Assistant Professor
MINES ParisTech

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Postdoc in Robot Manipulation at Northeastern University

The Robotics Laboratory at Northeastern University has an opening for a
Postdoc in robot manipulation and active perception to start in
September 2013. The postdoc will have a leadership role in our lab and
will have the opportunity to develop and test his/her own
ideas/algorithms on robot platforms such as the Rethink Robotics Baxter
robot or the Barrett Technologies WAM and hand. There are several
on-going projects that the successful candidate may choose to become
involved with including: tactile sensing for flexible materials
handling, active range sensing in grasping, and neuro-inspired manipulation.

We are looking for a candidate with a strong academic track record in
robot manipulation: either in planning, control, or perception. The
ideal candidate will be familiar with ROS and have good programming
skills. The candidate must also have good mathematical and analytical
skills and be able to speak English well.

The initial appointment will be for one year with the possibility of
extension based on satisfactory performance. The position will be based
at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. All applicants must have a PhD
in a relevant field. This position is open to applicants of all
nationalities.

To apply, please email Robert Platt (robplatt@buffalo.edu) with the
subject line "PostDoc Application". Please include in your email: 1) a
brief description of your current position, your PhD topic or recent
research, and the date on which you could start a new job; 2) the URL of
your homepage; 3) your Google Scholar search URL.

Robert Platt
Assistant Professor
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
440 Huntington Avenue
202 West Village H
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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EPFL: Open positions (PhD + postdoc) in the control of compliant humanoid robots and wearable exoskeletons


The Biorobotics laboratory (Biorob, http://biorob.epfl.ch/) at EPFL
(Lausanne, Switzerland) anticipates to have four open positions in the
*control of compliant humanoid robots (project A) *and*wearable
exoskeletons (project B),* starting in *Fall 2013*. The goal of**project
A is to design a locomotion control architecture for a compliant
humanoid robot based on the concept of central pattern generators and
motor primitives. The goal of project B is to develop neuromechanical
models of human locomotion and to apply them to the control of wearable
lower-limb exoskeletons. For each project, there is one *PhD
studentship* and one *postdoc position*. The positions will be fully
funded thanks to European grants, and the projects will be carried out
together with several other labs in Europe. EPFL is one of the leading
Institutes of Technology in Europe and offers internationally
competitive salaries and research infrastructure.

Applications will be considered continuously until the positions are
filled. The ideal starting dates are *September 1 for project A*
and*October 1 for project B* (or as soon as possible after those dates).
See http://biorob.epfl.ch/openings for instructions on how to apply.
Thank you for forwarding this announcement to people you think might be
interested.

Best regards

Auke Ijspeert



-----------------------------------
Prof Auke Jan Ijspeert
Associate Professor

Biorobotics Laboratory
EPFL-STI-IBI-BIOROB
EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne
Station 14, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Office: INN 237 Tel: +41 21 693 2658, Fax: +41 21 693 3705
www:http://biorob.epfl.ch Email:Auke.Ijspeert@epfl.ch

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Call for PhD, postdoc and engineer positions in Robotics at Inria Bordeaux, France


The Flowers Team at Inria (Bordeaux, France) is seeking for highly motivated and talented postdoc and PhD researchers interested in the following topics:


* Machine Learning for Robotics (especially Reinforcement Learning, Imitation, and Model Learning)
* Computational Approaches for Human-Robot Collaboration
* Personalized robotic factory cells
* Lifelong robot learning in the context of assistive robotics


The Flowers project-team, at Inria Bordeaux and Ensta ParisTech, is a highly stimulating research environment which has been developing cutting edge research in autonomous robot learning and development, imitation learning, human-robot adaptive interaction and robot language acquisition. Around five permanent researchers (M. Lopes, F. Stulp, D. Filliat, A. Gepperth, P-Y. Oudeyer), a lively group of PhDs, postdocs and engineers are collaborating with more than 15 labs in the world on various projects. Members of the team have been recently awarded several prestigious international research distinctions (e.g. ERC Grant, King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics for the year 2012).
Web: http://flowers.inria.fr


There are multiple research positions funded by several EU-FP7-ICT "Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics" projects:


* phd student scholarship
* 3 year post-doc
* 3 year expert engineer


The candidates will be involved in a european research project on human-robot collaboration, co-working and adaptive interaction. This will also involve close collaborations with several international laboratories, including the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IAS) at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), the Machine Learning & Robotics Lab (Univ. Stuttgart), and the Intelligent Systems group at the University of Innsbruck (Austria).


The candidates must have strong skills in mathematics, machine learning and control theory (with a focus on statistics, optimization and control theory), and be capable to conduct complex robotic experiments in a collaborative project.


They must have experience in robotics and programming proficiency (e.g. C/C++, Matlab, Python).


*** PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS: PLEASE MEET MANUEL LOPES ***
*** AT ICML in Atlanta or at RSS in Berlin IF YOU ATTEND ***


Contact: Manuel Lopes ( manuel.lopes@inria.fr )


Flowers Team:
http://flowers.inria.fr
Inria site:
http://www.inria.fr/bordeaux/


City of Bordeaux
http://www.bordeaux.fr/
Bordeaux is situated in the south of France, and is one of the most pleasant town to live in France, with a sunny weather, a unique and large historical center protected by UNESCO, and close to the sea and the Pyr?n?es mountains. The Inria research center is situated in the middle of a large scientific campus, in a brand new building with a direct view on the famous Haut-Brion vineyard.


About Inria:
http://www.inria.fr
Inria is a major research institution at the international level in applied mathematics and computer sciences. Inria?s 3,400 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future. The institute is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST) but also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, disseminating scientific and technical information, and participating in international programs. Inria develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety companies have been founded with the support of Inria Transfer, a subsidiary of Inria, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying, and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. Inria is involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the W3C of which Inria was the European host from 1995 to 2002. Throughout its
eight research centres located, Inria has a workforce of 3800 (2,800 of whom are scientists from Inria or from Inria?s partner organisations such as CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools). The researchers at Inria published over 4,800 articles in 2010. They are behind over 270 active patents and 105 start-ups. In 2010, Inria?s budget came to 252.5 million euros, 26% of which represented its own resources. They work in 173 project-teams. Many Inria researchers are also professors who supervise around 1000 doctoral students, their theses work contributing to Inria research projects.
Inria maintains important international relations and exchanges. In Europe, Inria is a member of ERCIM, which brings together research institutes from 19 European countries. Inria is a partner in about 120 FP6 actions and 128 FP7 actions, with 71 proposals in the ICST field.

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Open PhD position in Affective Robotics :
Full doctorate scholarship available to conduct research in analogues of
emotion for robotic mapping, localisation and path planning available at
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (VUW). VUW is ranked number
one in New Zealand for research in the NZ government research exercise 2013.

PhD scholarship scheduled to start October, 2013. Candidates are invited to
send an email with a letter expressing their interest for the proposed
research and their CV, including full transcript, English-language test
score and any publications, to the supervisors [Professor Dale Carnegie and
Dr Will Browne, Dale.Carnegie@vuw.ac.nz, Will.Browne@vuw.ac.nz].

- Project Description -
The field of affective computing seeks to draw analogues of human emotions
for the benefit of artificial systems. This may be in interaction with
humans, communication or in decision-making, where the latter is the focus
of the proposed research work. Analogues of emotion are to be utilised to
develop an autonomous robot for mapping, localisation and path planning when
exploring unknown, unfamiliar and/or dynamic environments with the potential
application of search and rescue robotics. The work is to be grounded in
theory of emotion, e.g. Plutchik, Rolls, Damasio and Darwin.

This position would suit a student who has an interest in autonomous
robotics. It is preferred that the candidate have some computer
programming, electronics and control systems experience. An interest in
psychology is advantageous but not essential. The preferred candidate will
have experience in research with supporting journal or conference
publications.

Closing date: 10 August 2013

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Open PhD position in Underwater Robotics @ Cyprus University of Technology

I would like to inform you about an immediate PhD position opening at
the Cyprus University of Technology (http://www.cut.ac.cy), Department
of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering.

The position is in the topic of Automated Motion Task Planning for
Autonomous Symbiotic Underwater Robotic Systems.

Exceptional candidates with solid engineering background, expressed
talent in mathematics and strong computer & programming skills will be
considered. The position is open for full time students only. The
successful candidate will receive internationally competitive funding
for the first year, renewable subject to performance for the second
year of studies. Subsequent funding will be provided subject to
performance and funding availability.

The candidate should hold an undergraduate and a Masters degree
(Five-year degrees with certificate of Masters equivalence will also
be considered by the selection committee) in the field of Mechanical,
Electrical Engineering or other related field.

For more information, please visit the position announcement page:

http://www.cut.ac.cy/university/jobs...ntentId=117604

Deadline for applications: Friday 14th of June, 2013, at 14:00 p.m. EEST

For more information, the interested candidates may contact Assistant
Professor Savvas G. Loizou (tel: (+357) 25002165, e-mail:
savvas.loizou@cut.ac.cy).


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Savvas G. Loizou, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Materials Science and Engineering
Cyprus University of Technology
Dorothea Bldg 507
45 Kitiou Kyprianou Str.,
Limassol 3041, CYPRUS
Tel.: +357-25002165
Fax: +357-25002819
e-mail: savvas.loizou@cut.ac.cy
web: www.cut.ac.cy/staff/savvas.loizou

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Postdoc Opening in Real-Time 6DOF Parallel Medical Robotics at The University of Chicago

We currently have multiple postdoctoral openings in the development of a
real-time 6DOF parallel Stewart platform system for stereotactic brain
radiosurgery at The University of Chicago. We are looking for candidates
with direct experience in:

- design, construction, and implementation of 6DOF parallel robotic devices
such as a Stewart platform.
- custom linear actuator design, construction, and feedback control.
- real-time 6DOF optical image tracking (IR markers and 3D surface).
- robotic control programming experience (labview, matlab, or C/C++).
- providing leadership and mentoring to graduate students.

It is expected that the successful candidate will have a PhD in
engineering, physics or computer science. Qualified applicants should
respond by e-mail as soon as possible to Prof. Rodney Wiersma (
rwiersma@uchicago.edu) with a CV and availability. Chosen candidates will
be contacted directly. The postdoc would be employed under the Biological
Sciences Division (http://www.bsdpostdoc.uchicago.edu/).

--
Rodney D. Wiersma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Committee on Medical Physics
The University of Chicago
5758 S. Maryland Avenue MC9006
Chicago, IL 60637
t: 773-702-6874
f: 773-834-7299
e: rwiersma@uchicago.edu