Research Scientist, HRI Research to Enable Collaborative Humanoid Robots

<h4><strong>Snapshot</strong></h4> <p>Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.</p> <h4><strong>About Us</strong></h4> <p>We are looking for Research Scientists to join the Robotics team whose mission is to “Build embodied AI responsibly to benefit people in the physical world. This role is focused on foundational collaborative robotics research and unlocking capabilities to enable safe and effective interaction between people and robots.&nbsp;</p> <h4><strong>The Role</strong></h4> <p>Research Scientists work on a diverse and stimulating range of projects including: inventing algorithms and prototype applications, working with real robots in the lab and outside the lab tackling real world use cases. Research Scientists work in large collaborative teams to make cutting edge breakthroughs to advance Robotics AI. We believe large foundation models will transform general purpose Robotics like with our Gemini Robotics models. This role will involve working with a diverse multi-functional team that builds the future of robotics.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Key responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, implement, train and evaluate large models and algorithms for humanoid robots.&nbsp;</li> <li>Make breakthroughs and unlock new humanoid safety capabilities. Areas of focus include:</li> <ul> <li>Human Robot Communication: Verbal and Nonverbal, includes research on Bidirectional Native Audio Robotics Models, voice and persona development, and gesture generation.</li> <li>Human Perception and Intent Understanding: Understanding where people are in the environment and what they are doing so that