PhD position available in Robotics and AI (robot personalisation) at Institute of Robotics

A PhD position is available in the Institute of Robotics at CSIC-Barcelona:
Subject: The candidate will develop a cognitive training robot able to
physically play different games with mild dementia patients.
Candidate profile: knowledge of AI techniques (symbolic model learning,
planning algorithms) and C++; robotics is a plus; HRI is a plus.
Duration: 3 years full time research time. Expected start: 1st of April 2017
Salary: approx. 33000 Eur gross per year (standard Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher)
Expected starting date for the PhD position is 1st of April 2017.
More information: http://www.iri.upc.edu/jobs/39
The recruitment is done as part of SOCRATES (SOcial Cognitive Robotic
Agents in The European Society), a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie European
Training Network (ETN) comprising 7 universities/research institutes:
Umeå University and Örebro University in Sweden, Universität Hamburg and
Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart in Germany, CSIC Barcelona in Spain,
University West of England, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in
Israel. Additional non-academic partners are: Pal Robotics, Adele
Robots, Alfred Nobel Science Park, Urquhart-Dykes & Lord LLP, Center for
Digital Innovation, UMINOVA, Asea Brown Boveri, S.A, and Fundació ACE.