• Benchmarking SOTA Trackers: You could focus on the evaluation side, running specific trackers (like ByteTrack, OC-SORT, Bot-SORT, …) on our custom dataset to measure their performance in HRI scenarios.
• Data Collection: You could design and execute new experiments to capture videos of natural Human-Robot Interaction, expanding the diversity of our dataset.
• Fine-Tuning & Annotation: You could help annotate data to create Ground Truths that allow us to fine-tune trackers for our needs.

Regardless of the specific direction, the internship will involve close collaboration with the PhD supervisor to ensure the work contributes to the wider research paper.

Skills & Requirements

• Education: Master student in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Ideally experience with Annotation Software (e.g., CVAT)
• Basic understanding of Object Detection (e.g., YOLO) and Tracking concepts.

Please note that our internships are not fully paid. We invest in you by providing mentorship, learning opportunities, and hands-on experience in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. However, we do offer some support for living expenses, relocation, etc., based on individual circumstances.

Important: We can only accept candidates who are eligible to work in Sweden with an active residency.

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 and to empower people by designing computer interfaces that are socially aware. Our forerunner innovation is the Furhat robot, an award-winning and patented social human-like robot head. No one who’s seen Furhat is left untouched.

Furhat’s face is superior in that it is designed using computer animation with unique expressiveness and customizability, putting special focus on the personality and character of the robot. Furhat's “brain” is powered by a state-of-the-art conversational platform which is used to build highly sophisticated and socially-aware spoken interactions.

Today, the robot is available as a development platform for developers, and early adopters. We see social robots to be a game changing interface to artificially intelligent agents. Join us and help to create a more social future, and to bring social robots to the world.