Every role in humanoid robotics.
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- Robot Controls
Controls Engineer
Controls engineers make humanoid robots move with stability, precision, compliance, and safety.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerLegsHandsBodyBrain+4SWHWMathFieldSys - Locomotion and Whole-Body Control
Locomotion Engineer
Locomotion engineers make humanoid robots stand, walk, balance, step, turn, recover, and keep moving safely through the real world.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerLegsBrainBodySimulation+1SWHWMathFieldSys - Manipulation and Dexterity
Manipulation Engineer
Manipulation engineers make humanoid robots use their arms, hands, fingers, sensors, and learned behaviours to interact with the physical world.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerHandsBrainEyesBody+2SWHWMathFieldSys - Actuation / Robot Joints
Actuator Engineer
Actuator engineers design, integrate, test, and improve the electromechanical systems that make a humanoid robot move.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerPowerHandsLegsBody+2SWHWMathFieldSys - Mechanical Design / Humanoid Hardware
Mechanical Design Engineer
Mechanical design engineers create the physical parts, assemblies, mechanisms, structures, enclosures, joints, covers, and thermal paths that make a humanoid robot possible.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerBodyHandsLegsPower+2SWHWMathFieldSys - Electrical Systems
Electrical Systems Engineer
Electrical systems engineers design, integrate, test, and improve the electrical hardware that lets a humanoid robot power up, sense, compute, move, charge, communicate, and survive real-world use.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerPowerBodyBrainEyes+4SWHWMathFieldSys - Embedded Robotics Systems
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded systems engineers build the low-level software that lets a humanoid robot's electronics, sensors, actuators, batteries, and compute modules work reliably in the real world.
PathMotion & HardwareLayerPowerBodyHandsLegs+2SWHWMathFieldSys