Build and operate the full-stack platform for teleoperating humanoid robots in homes, using Go, Next.js/React, ROS telemetry, and AWS infrastructure.
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Senior Research Scientist (Robotics) at the AI Robot Association (AIRoA), which is collecting one million hours of humanoid-robot operation data with hundreds of robots to train powerful Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, building an open, shared robot-data ecosystem where datasets, trained models and benchmarks are available to everyone.
Researchers work on fundamental challenges in robotics and AI — multimodal learning, tactile-rich manipulation, sim-to-real transfer and large-scale benchmarking — with access to hundreds of humanoid robots, GPU clusters, high-fidelity simulators and a global-scale evaluation pipeline, collaborating with leading academic and industry experts and publishing results, with all results made open. Work location is Heiwajima, Tokyo. Employment is full-time. The posting is in English.
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