Robotics Intern - Robotics and Human Aware Interaction and Learning
Toyota Research InstituteCambridge, Massachusetts
Internship
Posted February 24, 2026
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Job Description
A research internship focused on developing algorithms and frameworks for human-aware robot learning and interaction, including robot policy robustness, hierarchical reasoning, and shared autonomy, with opportunities to develop prototypes, run experiments, and contribute to academic publications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop working code prototypes for robot learning and human-robot interaction.
- Conduct experiments with simulated and real robots to test policies and models.
- Assist in building and maintaining large datasets of robot demonstration data.
- Collaborate with team members to analyze data and refine robot policies.
- Participate in publishing research findings to peer-reviewed venues.
Requirements
- A candidate who is comfortable working with both existing large static datasets as well as helping build and maintain a new corpus of robot data.
- Experience in developing working code prototypes related to robot learning, human-robot interaction, or related fields.
- Ability to run experiments with both simulated and real physical robots.
- Strong understanding of robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multimodal policies.
- Experience with data aggregation and simulative approaches towards adaptation of vision-language-action (VLA) models to human-human and human-robot interaction datasets.
- Familiarity with developing and implementing hierarchical reasoning frameworks for robot policies that can reason over human and shared task states.
- Experience in exploring additional data sources for training human-interactive robot policies, including human-human and synthetic semi-synthetic data.
- Ability to develop shared autonomy systems with VLA models to enable more sophisticated fusion between autonomous and manual control, including data collection and runtime decision-making.
- A background in machine learning, AI, robotics, or related fields with relevant skills and knowledge.
- Availability for a 12-week internship, with the role being a hybrid, in-office position.
- Possession of the necessary physical and cognitive abilities to participate in experiments with physical robots (implied by the need to run experiments with real robots).
Benefits & Perks
Paid 12-week internship
Hybrid in-office role
Competitive hourly pay range of $40 to $58 depending on experience and location
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off including holiday pay and sick time
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