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In this master's thesis at 120ft, you will investigate how operational data can improve robot learning for real assembly tasks.\nHost: 120ft Factory AB, Stockholm\nCompany supervisor: Sulthan Suresh Fazeela\nField: Machine learning and robotics\nBackground\n120ft builds Factory OS, a software layer that lets humanoid robots, currently the Unitree G1-D, carry out high-mix, low-volume assembly work. Robot behaviour comes from Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies trained on recorded demonstrations.\nToday, almost all training data comes from dedicated teleoperation sessions. Every hour of that data costs an operator's hour. But the robot also generates data every time it runs.\nThe research question\nOperational rollouts include per-frame tags showing whether a human or a policy was driving. 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The goal is to characterise the data and give an evidence-based recommendation on its value for training.\nCompare the operational dataset with curated teleoperation datasets: volume, success and failure balance, and recurring failure modes.\n\nTest whether fine-tuning on operational data changes policy quality, and whether filtering or weighting by operator-judged outcome labels makes a difference.\n\nExplore other data-centric questions that emerge, including the reliability and consistency of outcome labels.\n\nWhat we provide\nA technical supervisor.\n\nAccess to existing operational and curated datasets.\n\nAccess to the training stack for fine-tuning experiments.\n\nAccess to a real Unitree G1-D if additional rollouts are needed.\n\nWho this is for\nYou are a master's student in machine learning or robot learning, comfortable with empirical experimentation and data analysis.\nApply\nSend your CV and a GitHub, LinkedIn or website link. 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