MERL is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to conduct research on bimanual visuotactile manipulation for industrial applications, such as assembly, disassembly, and tool-enabled operations. The focus of this internship is on developing closed-loop manipulation skills for contact-rich tasks using visuotactile sensing and multi-modal learning from large foundation models. In particular, we are interested in exploring how VLA/RT-style vision-language-action models or foundation manipulation models can be adapted or fine-tuned for real-world bimanual settings. A successful internship will lead to a submission to a top-tier robotics venue (e.g., RSS, ICRA, CoRL) in collaboration with MERL researchers. The internship duration is approximately 3 months, beginning in Summer or Fall 2026, and will be fully onsite at MERL.