The Essex Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre brings together the research skills, expertise, and technologies across our Faculty of Humanities, Science and Health, and Social Sciences to address the grand challenges facing citizens, workers, and technologists in sectors undergoing digital transformation to create new or modify existing business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.
We have the ambition of developing a sustainable funding model for our research fit for the rigours of the emerging UK research environment. We reach beyond the confines of academia as we have a clear mandate to work with business partners in the UK and overseas. We're different because we bring a commercial mindset to our work. We start with and are responsive to business needs, ensuring they receive the outputs they need when they need them. We're not bound by tradition and offer fresh perspectives and innovation in all we do.
Recently, we secured funding from Horizon Europe for the project ARISE (GA 101135959). As part of this 4-year project, we aim to realise a robotic platform that focuses on two crucial industrial sectors that can drive the European Green Deal progress, namely Energy and Agriculture. ARISE will be driven by the needs of Solar Panel installation and maintenance and the harvesting of hydroponic lettuce. It will be validated on five highly challenging Use Case Scenarios, including but not limited to, picking up and moving Solar Panels in collaboration with human workers, transplanting delicate lettuce pieces, and repairing solar panel back-sheets with silicon-based sealants. This set of scenarios involves extremely diverse requirements in terms of long-sequence task accomplishment, complex, contact-rich manipulation, and physical Human-Robot Interaction.
Duties of the Role
The purpose of this post is to deliver part of the Horizon Europe project ARISE (https://arise-robotics.eu/). A full list of duties and responsibilities (Research; Leadership and Citizenship) can be found within the job pack.
This appointment will be on a fixed-term, full-time basis until 31 December 2026 in line with the temporary funding and will be based at Granta Park, Cambridge (TWI site).
Qualifications and Skills Required
You will hold a relevant Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience or practice.
You must have evidence of an emerging research agenda, engagement in high-quality research activity, and a developing research profile.
In addition, you will have experience with computer vision and deep learning, Python (programming language), and PyTorch (deep learning framework).
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential.
At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity are central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths, and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.
Please see the attached job pack, which contains a full job description and person specification outlining the full duties, skills, qualifications, and experience needed for this role, plus more information relating to the post. We recommend you read this information carefully before making an application. Applications should be made online, but if you would like advice or help in making an application, or need information in a different format, please contact resourcing@essex.ac.uk.
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We have the ambition of developing a sustainable funding model for our research fit for the rigours of the emerging UK research environment. We reach beyond the confines of academia as we have a clear mandate to work with business partners in the UK and overseas. We're different because we bring a commercial mindset to our work. We start with and are responsive to business needs, ensuring they receive the outputs they need when they need them. We're not bound by tradition and offer fresh perspectives and innovation in all we do.
Recently, we secured funding from Horizon Europe for the project ARISE (GA 101135959). As part of this 4-year project, we aim to realise a robotic platform that focuses on two crucial industrial sectors that can drive the European Green Deal progress, namely Energy and Agriculture. ARISE will be driven by the needs of Solar Panel installation and maintenance and the harvesting of hydroponic lettuce. It will be validated on five highly challenging Use Case Scenarios, including but not limited to, picking up and moving Solar Panels in collaboration with human workers, transplanting delicate lettuce pieces, and repairing solar panel back-sheets with silicon-based sealants. This set of scenarios involves extremely diverse requirements in terms of long-sequence task accomplishment, complex, contact-rich manipulation, and physical Human-Robot Interaction.
Duties of the Role
The purpose of this post is to deliver part of the Horizon Europe project ARISE (https://arise-robotics.eu/). A full list of duties and responsibilities (Research; Leadership and Citizenship) can be found within the job pack.
This appointment will be on a fixed-term, full-time basis until 31 December 2026 in line with the temporary funding and will be based at Granta Park, Cambridge (TWI site).
Qualifications and Skills Required
You will hold a relevant Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience or practice.
You must have evidence of an emerging research agenda, engagement in high-quality research activity, and a developing research profile.
In addition, you will have experience with computer vision and deep learning, Python (programming language), and PyTorch (deep learning framework).
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential.
At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity are central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths, and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.
Please see the attached job pack, which contains a full job description and person specification outlining the full duties, skills, qualifications, and experience needed for this role, plus more information relating to the post. We recommend you read this information carefully before making an application. Applications should be made online, but if you would like advice or help in making an application, or need information in a different format, please contact resourcing@essex.ac.uk.
*More information: Working at the University
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