The Networked Systems Lab of the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) de Elche (Spain) offers several fully-funded PhD positions in Networked Physical AI Multi-Agent Systems.

Future Physical AI systems will be characterized by large populations of autonomous embodied agents – including collaborative robots and connected autonomous vehicles– operating in shared physical environments. Unlike today's agentic AI systems, which primarily execute predefined workflows in structured and well-defined digital environments, future Physical AI agents will have to perceive, reason and act under unstructured and continuously evolving real-world conditions and objectives. This calls for a fundamental rethinking of how agents interact, requiring intelligence and semantic and task-oriented networking to be co-designed so that agents can collaboratively construct meaningful representations of the physical world, reason over existing (shared) context and knowledge, and adapt their networking and interactions to efficiently accomplish individual and collective tasks.





Our lab is offering several PhD positions on research at the intersection of Physical AI, multi-agent systems, and 6G networks. The research will focus on developing solutions that enable autonomous agents to perceive, reason, network, and collaborate effectively in dynamic real-world environments. The research may also include interactions between embodied agents and agents at the 6G edge-cloud continuum infrastructure, as well as AI-network-control co-design. Research will initially be framed in collaborative mobile robotics and connected automated mobility, while developing scientific foundations that generalize to a broader range of cyber-physical systems. Specific research topics will be discussed during the interviews, and they can be co-defined with selected candidates based on their background, expertise, and research interests. The positions are for three years and will start as soon as possible. The positions are

📌 PhD positions in Networked Physical AI Multi-Agent Systems (Elche)
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