I'm hiring researchers for my physically embodied AI & robotics team at MSR! 🤖👇 Physically embodied agents, both in the humanoid robot form and beyond, are the new computational platform of tomorrow. As with personal computers many decades ago, these days we are just starting the journey towards realizing its potential. My team's mission is to make this journey all the way, beginning with the fundamentals: giving robots the robust ability to interact with and navigate the world around them. The team's focus of priority is robotic manipulation in weakly and semi-structured environments, which offers some of the most fascinating challenges in AI research simultaneously with opportunities for very tangible real-world impact. Given this, I'm currently looking for folks with deep expertise in: ▶️ Training and inference for multimodal foundation models. ▶️ AI decision-making. Those of you who think it is about algorithms and architectures as well as data, this is your chance to overcome the LLM research-induced trauma 😅 ▶️ Everything relevant to making the above work in the context of robotic manipulation: tactile and force feedback, evaluation on physical hardware, etc, etc. Is this a lot to ask? Yes... But think about the enormity of the problems we have to solve! 🚀 P.S. I may not be able to answer all your messages, but all applications submitted by January 15 will receive full consideration.