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PhD Research Intern - Robotics & Physical AI
Palona AI
Los Altos, CA, US
Source: Palona AI careers · View original posting
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- full time
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Palona AI is building the operational intelligence layer for Physical AI.
A core part of our research is interaction understanding: treating interactions, rather than objects alone, as a first-class perception target. Our goal is to enable agentic systems that are not merely instruction-reactive, but event-proactive—systems that understand what is happening in the physical world, plan the right response, and deploy timely action.
We are now extending this capability into a closed-loop robotic system:
Perception → Interaction Understanding → Planning → Deployment → Execution Monitoring → Replanning
We are looking for a PhD Research Intern with a strong robotics background to help prototype and evaluate this next stage of our Physical AI stack.