HRI Researcher

Ludo Robotics is a startup focused on developing general-purpose robotic intelligence systems. As an HRI Researcher, you will design and evaluate how robots perceive and respond to human behavior, collaborating with diverse teams to create socially capable robots.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to research at the frontier of robot social intelligence, including gaze behavior, turn-taking, dialog, gesture, emotional expression, proxemics, and other socially acceptable robot behaviors
• Design and conduct experiments, and field deployments to evaluate how people perceive and interact with our robots
• Develop theoretical frameworks and translate them into prototype robot behaviors, bridging HRI theory with real-world system implementation
• Synthesize findings from academic literature across HCI, social robotics, cognitive science, and AI to inform research direction and prototype design
• Integrate social behavior models into robot control pipelines
• Help establish metrics and evaluation frameworks for socially intelligent robot behavior