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South HollandHybrid36 hours/week<3months
Develop AI-enabled robotic systems for responsible human-robot collaboration.
- Autonomous robots must be able to estimate uncertainty, explain their decisions, adapt to human preferences and values, and act safely and reliably in changing conditions.
- Contribute to an EU-funded project focusing on General-Purpose AI for robotics.
- Develop methods that combine fast System 1-style behavior with more deliberate System 2-style reasoning, adaptation, and decision-making.
- Investigate how robots can interact with humans to make transparent, trustworthy, safe, and reliable decisions.
- The research combines AI, robotics, and cognitive and social sciences to develop human-robot collaboration that supports meaningful human control.
- Enable humans to understand, influence, and take responsibility for the system’s behavior.
- The developed methods will be evaluated in real-world multi-stakeholder scenarios.
- Integrate data-driven approaches such as inverse reinforcement learning and imitation learning with cognitive and socio-technical models.
- Contribute to the development of broader ethical and governance frameworks for ethical human-robot interaction, addressing fairness, bias, privacy, safety, and oversight.
- Support trustworthy and responsible AI-enabled robotic systems.
What they ask
- A PhD degree (obtained or expected before joining the project).
- Applicants from different technical backgrounds are welcome.
- Expertise in AI with an interest in developing models that can identify and align to complex social contexts.
- A focus on human-robot interaction, addressing methods that empower humans to understand and steer the behavior of these systems.
- A socio-technical or design background, implementing state-of-the-art AI methods or developing human-centered robotics systems.
- Experience or interest in interdisciplinary research.
Practical
- Possibility of part-time work.
- Support for grant applications to extend the position.
- Salary and benefits in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
- An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
- The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
- Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
- Flexible working week.
- Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours), with options to sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
- Plenty of opportunities for education, training, and courses.
- Partially paid parental leave.
- Attention for working healthy and energetically with a vitality program.
- Relocation support to the Netherlands, including information, events, and a Dual Career Programme for accompanying partners.
- Risk assessment during recruitment as part of knowledge security.
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