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Robotics execution is handled by a partner - the researcher’s job is to make those systems smarter: multi-agent coordination, adaptive decision-making, collective behavior that emerges from local rules. The research direction includes swarm intelligence applied to real industrial problems, not simulations.\nThis role is fundamentally about integration - between research and reality, between AI systems and physical infrastructure, between your work and the engineering teams who own the hardware. 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