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A position (PhD or postdoc level) is available to work with Prof Pascal Meissner in the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt on one of today’s most relevant research problems at the intersection of autonomous robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

Learn as you help robots see, learn, and navigate! As mobile robots spread into different areas of human activity, they are breaking through the boundaries of the structured and static environments, such as houses or gardens, where they were first used. This is particularly thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning, which have provided robots with an unprecedented level of flexibility and safety in navigating complex environments. However, these advances remain limited to environments through which such robots have previously been manually steered to painstakingly record 3D maps of them. Still, we need robots that can explore and monitor unknown environments (without having been steered through them first) to perform tasks in them. Giving robots such capabilities is the goal of this project and of utmost importance for the success of future robotic systems.

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