Postdoctoral Researcher – Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
Postdoctoral Researcher – Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation
100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
- Postdoctoral Researcher – Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
Application process
- The Soft Robotics Lab within the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position within an industry-funded research collaboration.
- We are looking for an accomplished, hands-on researcher to lead the development of compact, durable tactile sensors for dexterous robotic hands, so that these hands can manipulate reliably even where vision falls short in unstructured, real-world settings.
- Our lab's goal is to build, model, and control robots in a fundamentally different way, so that they become more flexible, dexterous, capable, and adapt better to their environment.
- The lab has showcased its research in robotic design and algorithms through real-world applications such as a robotic fish for underwater locomotion and soft robotic hands for versatile object and scene manipulation . Project background
- Cameras alone are not enough for reliable manipulation: clutter, occlusion, and deformable objects routinely defeat vision-based approaches in real-world settings.
- The sense of touch closes this gap, yet today's tactile sensors still fall short of the compactness, durability, and measurement quality that dexterous robotic hands demand.
- As the postdoctoral researcher on this project, you will put tactile sensing at the center of the hand's design rather than treating it as an afterthought.
- Building on the lab's experience integrating proprioceptive and tactile sensing into tendon-driven, musculoskeletal robotic hands, you will design, fabricate, and characterize sensor modules that provide multi-axis force information, and drive their integration into a working hand platform. Job description
Additional details
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term
- The lab has showcased its research in robotic design and algorithms through real-world applications such as a robotic fish for underwater locomotion and soft robotic hands for versatile object and scene manipulation . Project background
- Building on the lab's experience integrating proprioceptive and tactile sensing into tendon-driven, musculoskeletal robotic hands, you will design, fabricate, and characterize sensor modules that provide multi-axis force information, and drive their integration into a working hand platform.
- As the senior researcher on the project, you will co-supervise the PhD student and master's students working alongside you, take ownership of driving the work end to end, and lead dissemination through publication in top robotics venues
- Strong written and spoken English, and comfort communicating results to an industry partner as well as an academic audience Background or experience
Notes and original content
- The lab has showcased its research in robotic design and algorithms through real-world applications such as a robotic fish for underwater locomotion and soft robotic hands for versatile object and scene manipulation .
- Project background
- Job description
- Strong written and spoken English, and comfort communicating results to an industry partner as well as an academic audience
- Background or experience
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