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 interact with humans, collaborating with engineers and designers 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