Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

About Aktoria Robotics

Human as API for robots

Tech

Remote teleoperation of robots over the public internet. Core problems: - Remote operations over unreliable networks. - Low-latency, high-fidelity data streaming for high telepresence. - A custom transport and networking stack built for real-time control. - Supporting different robots and hardware in the field, over varying connections.

The role

\- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models\- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies \- Publish papers and benchmarks \- data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots**expected to have:**\- experience training IL/VLA policies at scale \- First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work