Internship (or Master Thesis Project) Multimodal Perception in Human-Robot Interaction (Stockholm, Sweden)
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Job Summary
- Application Deadline: April 17 2026
- Stockholm
- On-site
Job Description
Research Context
This internship is embedded within an active PhD research project aimed at building a robust multimodal perception module for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
In HRI it is critical for a social robot to understand not just who is in front of it but how they are engaging. This research focuses on estimating high-level user states (such as attention engagement or confusion) by processing real-time non-verbal cues like gaze direction or head pose.
Internship Topic
The exact topic is not set in stone; we will define it together.
We are looking for a student to take ownership of a specific part of the perception pipeline. Depending on your interests and strengths your internship could focus on one or a combination of the following:
- Data Annotation & Ground Truth Creation: You could take the lead on analyzing video data of human-robot interactions and annotating high-level user states (e.g. labeling when a user is actively paying attention vs. distracted).
- Model Training & Evaluation: You could use the annotated data to train fine-tune and evaluate machine learning models (e.g. classifiers or deep learning architectures) to predict user states from low-level cues. Your model would directly feed into the broader user state estimation module.
- Data Collection: You could design and execute new experiments to capture naturalistic human-robot interactions expanding the diversity of our dataset for gaze and head pose variations.
Regardless of the specific direction the internship will involve close collaboration with the PhD supervisor to ensure the work contributes directly to an upcoming research paper.
Required Experience:
Intern
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About the company Furhat Robotics revolutionizes how people interact with information around them. We are a high-growth artificial intelligence and robotics startup from KTH in Sweden. Our vision is to create technology that is built fundamentally on principles of social intelligence ... View more
