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Research assistants needed for robotics project

We are looking for a part time, casual, Research Assistants for a robotics project, starting immediately for 10-12 hours per week until June 2022.

Our research project is funded by an international partner, with a goal to investigate personalisation and localisation of service robots. This is a good opportunity for someone with interests in human robot interaction, psychology and/or software engineering. The Research Assistant will provide support to Principal Investigator and postgraduate student.

You must be an independent self-starter.

Tasks include:

  • undertaking a literature review on service robot personalisation,
  • analysis of technical and evaluation methods for robot personalisation,
  • generating robot motions and test with real robot platform,
  • integrating existing modules such as: chatbot, sentiment analyser, medication reminder, medical server to robot etc.
  • filming robot motions for evaluation,
  • report writing

We are looking for someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Would suit a software engineering and/or psychology postgraduate student.

If you are interested, please send your cv and cover letter to Dr Ho Seok Ahn email: hs.ahn@auckland.ac.nz