General information
Offer title : Call for applications (M/F) for a post-doctoral position in cognitive robotics (H/F)
Reference : UPR8001-RACALA-012
Number of position : 1
Workplace : TOULOUSE
Date of publication : 28 April 2025
Type of Contract : Researcher in FTC
Contract Period : 12 months
Expected date of employment : 1 July 2025
Proportion of work : Full Time
Remuneration : between 2991€ and 3471€ gross monthly depending on expérience
Desired level of education : Doctorate
Experience required : Indifferent
Section(s) CN : 07 - Information sciences: processing, integrated hardware-software systems, robots, commands, images, content, interactions, signals and languages
Missions
The context and desired contribution of this post-doctoral position is to contribute to the development of anticipatory capabilities in cognitive and interactive robots. These capabilities will be implemented to enable an assistant robot to be proactive, to choose what and when to communicate, or to elicit or facilitate a human decision or action.
This work will be based on previous work and contributions from LAAS-CNRS in cognitive and interactive robotics. This includes planning and reactive planning of tasks and movements, as well as theory of mind and estimation of the human mental state. The extent to which foundation models can be integrated into the architecture will be studied, both in terms ofsituation assessment and tracking and deliberative abilities. .
Activities
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This work will take place at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. It will include
1) A study of the state of the art of anticipation in robotics and interactive AI both at the level of reasoning about mental states and about decisions
2) The development and implementation of illustrative HRI scenarios
Skills
- PhD in robotics and AI, human-robot interaction, cognitive robotics or closely related fields.
- Excellent academic record with publications
- Very good ablities in English, both written and spoken
- Solid knowledge in one of the following areas: AI, planning, human-robot interaction
- Strong robot programming skills
- Ability to analyse and improve algorithms
- Ability to work in a team with other researchers
Knowledge of systems and tools such as ROS, Linux and Git is a must.
Work Context
This position is funded as part of the AS3 action (Decision, learning and social interaction) of the PEPR O2R project (see: https://www.pepr-o2r.fr/) ) for one year, renewable. It is open to a highly motivated candidate with excellent experience in human-robot interaction and cognitive robotics.
The successful candidate will work mainly with Rachid Alami (https://homepages.laas.fr/rachid/) but also with members of the LAAS-RIS team (https://www.laas.fr/en/teams/ris/) and other researchers involved in the project.
The position is open for recruitment from July 2025 or a later date to be negotiated. Applications will be examined as they are received.
The position is located in a sector under the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with the regulations, that your arrival is authorized by the competent authority of the MESR.