Temporary Robotics Research Engineer

JOB TITLE

Temporary Robotics Research Engineer

LOCATION

Worcester

DEPARTMENT NAME

Robotics Engineering - JM

DIVISION NAME

Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

WPI is seeking to fill a temporary position of Robotics Research Engineer to set up a modular pick-generation pipeline that operates directly on the overhead RGB-D camera available in the lab. The input to your pipeline will be an RGB-D image, and the output should be a 3D pick location (x, y, z) relative to the robot's coordinate frame. You can assume that the scene contains objects from the YCB dataset.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The currently implemented approach works as follows:

• First, a segmentation model such as LangSAM is used to extract object masks from the RGB-D image.
• These masks are then passed to a grasping model (e.g., AnyGrasp) which estimates a 6D grasp pose for each detected object.
• You should extract and output the x, y, z, and theta for the highest-confidence grasp and visualize it on the input image.

FLSA STATUS

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

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