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This is a Summer 2025 paid 12-week internship opportunity. Please note that this internship will be a hybrid in-office role.
The Team
Our Trustworthy Learning under Uncertainty (TLU) team is looking for Research Interns for Summer 2025 in a variety of areas such as Policy Evaluation, Failure Detection and Mitigation, and Active Learning in the context of
Large Behavior Models (LBMs) for robot manipulation. Our topics of interest include but are not limited to: Multi-Modal Foundation Models, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Planning & Control, Uncertainty Estimation, Out-of-Distribution Detection, and Safety-Aware & Robust ML. We are aiming to make progress on some of the hardest scientific challenges around the safe and effective usage and development of machine learning algorithms within robotics. To this end, the research mission of the TLU team is to enable the robust and reliable deployment of LBMs at scale in human environments, while allowing for efficient adaptation to novel settings.
The Internship
As a Research Intern, you will work with a multidisciplinary team proposing, conducting, and transferring pioneering research in Machine Learning. You will use large amounts of sensory data and simulation to solve open problems, work towards publications at top academic venues, and test your ideas in the real world, including on our robots, of course!
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