Additional Information

Location: Flexible base — candidates may be based domestically (China) or internationally. Onshore options include Hangzhou or Beijing.

Reporting & Engagement: Reports directly to the Dean of DAMO Academy. Multiple engagement models are available:

• Full-time position
• Advisory/consulting arrangement
• Strategic investment from Alibaba is also on the table, depending on the situation

We sincerely invite top-tier leaders in embodied intelligence to engage in direct conversation with the Dean of DAMO Academy.

Head of Embodied Intelligence Research

Positioning: A future-oriented embodied intelligence research leader. Build foundational models for embodied perception and manipulation targeting the physical worlds of healthcare and science, with ultrasound robots as the first validation ground — deliberately avoiding the red ocean of humanoid robots and general-purpose physical AGI.

Core Responsibilities

Define the research agenda for foundational embodied perception-manipulation models targeting the physical worlds of healthcare and science.

Use the ultrasound robot as the first grounded validation platform, with extension pathways to other healthcare and scientific domains.

Build a frontier embodied intelligence research team, in close synergy with the Medical AI and Life Science pillars.

Requirements

Frontier embodied/robot learning leader: Proven track record in VLA, manipulation, world models, and related directions, with demonstrated real-robot results.

Strong publication record and technical taste — ability to identify paths that compound over time and build defensible moats.

Willingness to root deeply in the physical worlds of healthcare and science.

What We Are Building

The lab advances the following lines of work:

RynnBot Brain — The Embodied Intelligence BrainThis is the lab's technical foundation, focusing on three layers of capability:

1. RynnVLA — Embodied Manipulation Model (Vision-Language-Action)

Encompassing the VLA-001/002 series and beyond, enabling robots to translate visual and language inputs into precise physical actions.2. RynnAgent — Physical Intelligence

Comprising Embodied Cognition (EC), Brain, and Agent modules, responsible for task planning, environment understanding, and decision-making.3. RynnBFM — Next-Generation Embodied Behavior Foundation Model

Pursuing unified model capabilities across generalization, locomotion, and dexterous manipulation.

Ultrasound Robot — The Flagship Embodied Intelligence Scenario

Addressing the pain point of primary-care ultrasound — significant physician shortages and low standardization — the lab uses embodied AI + robotics to replicate the physician's full "scan–examine–diagnose" workflow. By combining systems engineering with algorithmic innovation, the goal is to deliver an integrated hardware-software product that elevates the intelligence level of primary-care ultrasound examinations. This serves as a critical real-world validation and deployment of embodied intelligence technology in a vertical scenario.

RynnBot Education — An Integrated Teaching and Practice Platform for Embodied Intelligence

Spanning K-12, vocational, and undergraduate levels, the platform delivers a through-line embodied intelligence curriculum integrating hardware and software. It comprises four pillars — educational content products, educational hardware products, cloud services (university community, AI SDK), and an open-source ecosystem (VLA, chips, data) — forming an end-to-end pipeline from teaching and research through development, simulation, and deployment, cultivating embodied intelligence talent and fostering industry-wide ecosystem growth.

Our Industry Impact

The lab continuously pushes the frontier of embodied intelligence through proprietary models including RynnVLA, RynnAgent, and RynnBFM, validating real-world value through flagship scenarios such as the ultrasound robot. Simultaneously, via the RynnBot education platform and open-source ecosystem, the lab exports models, toolchains, and data capabilities to both academia and industry, driving talent cultivation and ecosystem development across the entire embodied intelligence field.