Robotics Research Intern, Manipulation
Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA
The role
We are seeking a Robotics Research Intern to investigate agentic approaches to robotic manipulation. You will work closely with researchers and engineers to develop systems that connect foundation-model reasoning with physical robot capabilities.
Depending on your background and research interests, your project may focus on spatial reasoning, robotic skill orchestration, execution monitoring, failure recovery, or systematic evaluation of agentic manipulation systems.
This internship offers an opportunity to tackle open research questions while gaining practical experience with cutting-edge AI models and real robotic systems. Your work will contribute to understanding how foundation-model agents can enable more generalizable and reliable robot autonomy.
What you will do
- Develop and evaluate agentic approaches that use vision-language models to reason about and execute robotic manipulation tasks.