There are two internships in robotics available for 2010!

One internship is about artificial intelligence: cognitive robotics. Cognitive modeling using global workspace theory. A competing sets of modules that fight for a place on stage. The description of this internship can be found in the PDF file Internship - A Theater in the Mind of a Robot Organism.

The second internship is about artificial life: metamorphosis in robotics. Robot snakes changing in robot spiders and the other way around. The description of this internship can be found in the PDF file Internship - Robot Metamorphosis (gene regulatory networks to implement metamorphosis). Both internships are on a masters level (nothing more, nothing less).

This is of course self-advertisement, but our company is really a challenging place for internees, there is a lot of state-of-the-art research going on. We are a small company, 25 people, but because our products are commercialized within daughter companies, it is really possible to do pure research in our mother company. We have had several internees and PhDs before. From the University Utrecht, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, TU Eindhoven, TU Delft and the VU. In case you wonder - as almost always at Almende - all the code that you develop will be open-source. Feel free to contact me for any type of additional information. See my email address or telephone number at http://replicator.almende.com/contact.php

Some related information can be found in the very extensive Replicator Deliverable 3.3 in the Download section (you need to become a member of this blog for that).

To be selected for this internship, personal interest in the topic is considered most important. Don't be set back by the amount of prerequisite knowledge that seems to be expected of you. The final internship description will be written together with you and the supervisor at your university. It is definitely meant to fit an internship/thesis on a masters level (nothing more, nothing less).

See also http://sense.almende.com for an internship regarding pattern recognition in wireless sensor networks.