Postdoctoral Associate (Reflex and Habitual Motor Control for Embodied AI)

Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S), an Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to join a newly funded research programme in Embodied Artificial Intelligence under the National Research Foundation Thematic Competitive Research Programme titled Biologically Inspired Embodied AI Action Architecture.

The programme develops a new robotic foundation-model architecture that combines vision-language reasoning with high-frequency motor control grounded in force-torque and tactile feedback. The aim is to enable robots to act in real-world industrial settings — including aerospace MRO, semiconductor manufacturing, and offshore platform operations — even when continuous visual input is unavailable, and to learn the appropriate amount of force to exert for contact-rich tasks.

The programme is jointly led by the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) at A*STAR (Lead PI: Dr. ...