Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

Aktoria builds remote teleoperation software for robots. A remote operator can run a robot anywhere in the world as if standing right next to it. Our product is what makes deployed robots useful today.

• Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models

• Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies

• Publish papers and benchmarks

• data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots

expected to have:

• experience training IL/VLA policies at scale

• First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work

Remote teleoperation of robots over the public internet. Core problems:

• Remote operations over unreliable networks.
• Low-latency, high-fidelity data streaming for high telepresence.
• A custom transport and networking stack built for real-time control.
• Supporting different robots and hardware in the field, over varying connections.