Toyota Research Institute · 3 weeks ago
Robotics Intern - Learning from Humans & Language Steering
Cambridge, MA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$40/hr - $58/hr
Start in 2026 SummerToyota Research Institute (TRI) is on a mission to improve the quality of human life through innovative research and development. They are seeking a Research Intern to focus on learning from humans at scale for robotic manipulation, which involves improving how robots understand and act on human instructions using large-scale data and interactive learning techniques.
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Responsibilities
Learning from egocentric video: Using first-person human data to instruct robots how to act and reason about tasks in the real world
Pretraining with human data: pretraining Robot Foundation Models for Dexterous Manipulation using human data at scale
Instruction following and grounding: Improving how LBM-powered robots interpret and act on natural language and multimodal commands
Interactive learning: Building robot agents that can engage with humans to reduce ambiguity in goals and instructions
In the wild data collection and learning: Developing scalable methods to acquire, filter, and learn from diverse, unstructured real-world data
Learning at scale: Designing data pipelines and model architectures that efficiently train on massive, heterogeneous datasets
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience with using machine learning for learned control, including RL, offline RL, or behavior cloning, for manipulation
Experience with machine learning and familiarity with large multi-modal datasets and models
Strong software development skills in Python
A 'make it happen' attitude and comfort with fast prototyping
A passion for robotics and doing research grounded in important fundamental problems
Preferred
Experience deploying policies on robots in the real world
Experience working in a research environment
Experience training foundation models with large-scale datasets
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision insurance
401(k) eligibility
Paid time off benefits (including vacation, sick time, and parental leave)
Annual cash bonus structure
Company
Toyota Research Institute
Toyota Research Institute is an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.
Founded in 2016
201-500 employees
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