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The Robotics and AI Institute is a research organisation whose mission is to solve fundamental challenges in robotics and artificial intelligence. It develops software for robotic applications and builds robot prototypes, and it hires machine learning engineers and interns in software, sensor calibration and autonomous agents. The institute is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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AthenaZero: A low-inertia, bimanual robot for dynamic manipulation
AthenaZero is a bimanual manipulator designed to minimize inertia without compromising control authority. By using quasidirect drive actuation and transmission remotization techniques, the system achieves an effective end-point...
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ScienceAdviser: ZESTy robots cartwheel and backflip
Today in Science and science: The first Denisovan leg bone, gutsy winter horses, and more
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ZEST: Zero-shot embodied skill transfer for athletic robot control
Achieving robust, humanlike whole-body control on humanoid robots for agile, contact-rich behaviors remains a central challenge, demanding heavy per-skill engineering and a brittle process of tuning controllers. We...
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What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?
Research from the RAI Institute redefines undesirable work for robotics
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Lessons Learned from753 People Playing With Robots
A thousand people got to drive Spot. Lessons were learned
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Combining Sampling and Learning for Dynamic Whole-Body Manipulation
Spot uses dynamic whole-body manipulation to autonomously upright, roll, drag, and stack 15kg car tires using an approach that combines reinforcement learning and sampling-based optimization
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Marc Raibert: Half a Century of Innovation, and Still Looking Ahead
Executive Director Marc Raibert is one of the first guests interviewed by Brian Heater on his newly launched podcast, Automated Podcast by A3. Listen now to hear about...
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"The RAI Institute opens up unique opportunities for both researchers and students"
The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) in Zurich Oerlikon celebrated the opening of its new centre on 15 September. Marco Hutter, ETH professor of robotic systems and director of the RAI Institute Zurich, sat down with us to talk about the new opportunities
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Robotics and AI Institute over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
31
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
ROS
GTSAM
MuJoCo
Cloud & platforms
Linux
AI & ML
Gaussian Splatting
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Full Robotics and AI Institute tech stack
31 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
13 days
faster than 67% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
50% ▲
Early Careers
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Cambridge
Sep 2026
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1
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2
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Zurich
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Cambridge
United States
HQ
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1 posted in 90 days
Cambridge, MA 02142
Zurich
Switzerland
Regional office
Zurich, Switzerland
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 25% engineering
hires for Early Careers, AI/ML
Elias-Canetti-Strasse 2,
Jobs
In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Zurich
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
PyTorch
Agentic Workflows
World Models
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS2
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Perception
Sim-to-Real
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $43k – $85k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • PhD • Zurich
Python
C++
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
GTSAM
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≈ $44k – $86k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Zurich
Python
C++
Reinforcement Learning
Gaussian Splatting
CUDA
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
Reinforcement Learning
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