Internship
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
About the Role
Join a cutting-edge research team to advance the next generation of Embodied AI and Humanoid Robotics. As a research intern, you will develop AI technologies that enable humanoid robots to understand, reason, and interact with the physical world through complex manipulation, assembly, and tool-use tasks. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful research with the goal of publishing at leading AI and robotics conferences.
What You'll Work On
Depending on your background and interests, projects may include:
- Embodied AI for dexterous manipulation, assembly, and tool use
- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and Foundation Models for robotic control
- World-Action Models (WAM) for long-horizon planning and decision making
- Learning from human demonstrations, teleoperation, and autonomous data collection
- Sim-to-real transfer, reinforcement learning, and real-world robot deployment
Requirements & Tech Stack
We are seeking highly motivated graduate students with:
- Strong research experience in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, computer vision, or related fields
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX, and strong Python programming skills
- Familiarity with one or more of the following:
- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
- Foundation Models or multimodal AI
- Reinforcement learning or imitation learning
- Robot manipulation, motion planning, or control
- Agentic AI systems for robotics
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with humanoid or loco manipulators (e.g., Unitree G1)
- Experience with teleoperation systems (e.g., Pico, Sonic)
- Experience with robotics simulators (e.g., Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Genesis)
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS 2 and real-world robot experimentation
- Familiarity with policy deployment on edge AI devices (e.g., Jetson GPUs)
Internship Details
- Duration: Approximately 4 months
- Start Date: Flexible
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Objective: Conduct high-impact research leading to publications at premier AI and robotics conferences (e.g., CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML)
- Pay Range: 6-8K per month
- Relocation stipend, covered travel, and a monthly Charlie Card for local commuting.
- Participation in weekly social gatherings and professional development opportunities.
- Eligible for health insurance coverage after 90-day waiting period.
- Immigration support for qualified candidates.