Postdoctoral Researcher – Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation

The Soft Robotics Lab within the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position within an industry-funded research collaboration. We are looking for an accomplished, hands-on researcher to lead the development of compact, durable tactile sensors for dexterous robotic hands, so that these hands can manipulate reliably even where vision falls short in unstructured, real-world settings. Our lab's goal is to build, model, and control robots in a fundamentally different way, so that they become more flexible, dexterous, capable, and adapt better to their environment. The lab has showcased its research in robotic design and algorithms through real-world applications such as a robotic fish for underwater locomotion and soft robotic hands for versatile object and scene manipulation.