Manipulation Co-Op / Internship (Summer 2026)

Tuesday Lab • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Tuesday Lab builds delightful robots, aiming to make everyday life easier and more fun through cutting-edge robotics. The company consists of engineers, researchers, and builders dedicated to making the magical world of animated objects accessible to everyone. They are seeking a talented graduate student for their Manipulation Internship Program to help bring their robots to life. Over a 12+ week period, the intern will be responsible for improving and deploying interpretable robot policies by blending classical robotics with large models for perception and planning. This is a high-impact, hands-on role focused on seeing models work on physical systems, not just in simulation, and is critical for bridging the gap between large-scale AI and real-world, helpful, and delightful robot behavior.

Requirements

• Academic status: currently enrolled in a graduate-level (MS or PhD) computer science or robotics degree program.
• ML Skillset: Proven experience fine-tuning robot policies, or computer vision models specifically in the domain of robotic manipulation.
• Robotics Skillset: Hands-on experience deploying models onto real-world robots. Familiarity with robotics middleware (like ROS/ROS2) and the challenges of working with physical hardware (sensors, actuators).
• A portfolio of projects (e.g., from GitHub, a personal blog, or academic papers) demonstrating hands-on robotics and ML integration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience specifically with imitation learning, diffusion policies, or other modern manipulation-focused models.
• Familiarity with on-device optimization (e.g., TensorRT, quantization, pruning).
• Experience with data collection at scale, especially using teleoperation.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and benchmark large computer vision, language, and policy models.
• Implement research papers spanning both classical and learned approaches to robotic control and perception.
• Propose and evaluate ideas for our autonomy stack in collaboration with our manipulation team.

Benefits

• The opportunity to play a critical role in developing the future of home robotics. You will be building an important piece of infrastructure and your design decisions will make the difference between a delightful companion and a dysfunctional boondoggle.
• Work alongside people with deep expertise who love playful applications and are excited about building the future.
• Freedom to rapidly iterate, contribute to the technical direction of the company, and contribute novel and impactful solutions to important problems in robotics.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern