At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise.

It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 70 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 1,600 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.

Are you studying a study related interaction, behavior or robotics?  Are you interested in leading your own project where you will investigate how to create an identifiable behavior within a robot portfolio? Then this is your chance to do an internship at an international and innovative company.

Most important tasks

Lely provides a robot workforce that performs various tasks on farms all over the world. These robots comply with regulations and Asimov’s laws. However, a workforce, such as Lely employees, generally follows a code of conduct that state the rules for workplace behavior. Therefore the question is, should robots have more than just regulations and do they need to follow a behavioral code?

In this internship, you will start leading your own research to create a set of interaction guidelines. The goal is to create design patterns that will define human-robot interaction and make our robots nicer to work with. These guidelines should help our product and software developers when faced with choices regarding interaction and product design. There is also room for personal interpretation during the research.

Practical information:

• It is a graduation internship;
• The start date is September or October;
• The duration of the internship will be 3 to 6 month;
• You are available between 32 and 40 hours per week.

You will do your internship in the User Experience & Human Robot Interaction (UX&HRI) competence center within the product development department in close collaboration with the product management department. More than 300 people work at these departments, from engineers to product specialists. With this group, we design our robots and we design the next farming innovations: we are building the farm of the future.

Profile requirements:

• You follow a bachelor or master education that fits the assignment.
• You are interested in interaction and robots.
• You would like to lead your own research.
• You are flexible, independent and show a lot of own initiative

An instructive and insane experience at an international company driven by innovation. If you have any questions, you can always contact one of your colleagues who are just as driven in his/her field. Furthermore, we offer you:

• € 400, - internship allowance per month.
• Possibly an apartment if the travel time is too long.
• Would you like to work at Lely after your internship? About 40% of the interns continue to work at Lely after their internship! Plenty of options!
• #FitatLely program with (online) sports lessons, master classes on working from home and other activities in the field of Body, Mind or Food.

Do you see yourself in the above points? Then apply directly for our vacancy on the website!