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Research Intern: Physical Intelligence
Job Number: P25INT-21
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated PhD student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern. The successful candidate will contribute to the core areas of physical intelligence, from reasoning to recovery, needed for realizing robust contact-rich manipulation.
San Jose, CA
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Key Responsibilities
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- Contribute to robust manipulation by developing novel reasoning methods for failure understanding and recovery.
- Develop recovery algorithms to compensate for uncertainties, disturbances, and errors in the real-world.
- Collect data, fine-tune, and train vision and language models to adavance reasoning capabilities of robots.
- Implement and validate the developed algorithms in simulation and on hardware.
- Prepare presentations and reports, summarizing research results
- Contribute to the portfolio of patents, and publish research results when applicable at top-tier conferences and journals in robotics and machine learning.
Minimum Qualifications
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- Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, robotics, computer science, or a related field, with 3+ years of research experience in the field.
- Strong track record of developing contact-rich manipulation algorithms with focus on multi-modal reasoning, failure, and recovery.
- Solid knowledge of robot kinematics, dynamics, tactile, control, and robot learning methods.
- Experience with training and fine-tuning of vision-language models.
- Skilled in C++, Python, ROS, and physics simulators (e.g. MuJoCo, IsaacSym)
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience in real-world robotic manipulation using multi-fingered hands
- Experience with teleoperation of robotic hands, retargetting methods, and high-quality real-world data collection
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| Years of Work Experience Required |
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| Desired Start Date |
5/11/2026 |
| Internship Duration |
3 Months |
| Position Keywords |
Robotic Reasoning, Failure, Recovery, Vision-Language Models |
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