Internship: Mechatronics & Robotics Prototyping
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Join SenseGlove’s R&D team in Rotterdam for a 6-month internship starting in August, working on mechatronics and robotics prototyping.
Position Overview
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious 4th year HBO/WO student in mechatronics, mechanical engineering, robotics, or industrial design engineering to join our R&D team in Rotterdam. In this internship, you’ll work closely with our lead engineer and robotics engineer on the design and development of a new humanoid robotic hand as well as on prototyping design iterations of our cutting-edge haptic gloves.
About the internship
At SenseGlove, we build advanced haptic gloves that bring touch to virtual and robotic worlds. Our technology is used globally for VR training, research, and tele-operation of robots. We are now taking the next step: developing a novel humanoid robotic hand.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to hardware prototyping of robotic hand and haptic glove mechanisms
- Support mechatronics prototyping, integrating sensors, actuators and mechanics
- Testing and evaluating prototypes and translating your findings into actionable proposals and design changes
Who We’re Looking For
- Currently in at least the 4th year of a HBO or WO degree
- Studying mechatronics, mechanical engineering, industrial design engineering, robotics or a similar field
- Motivated to work on real hardware and excited by robotics challenges
- Proactive, curious, and eager to learn in a multidisciplinary team
- Comfortable working with hardware prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, soldering, screwing, drilling, etc.
- Available from August 2026
What we offer
- A hands-on internship at a technology leader at the forefront of XR and robotics
- Supervision and mentorship from experienced engineers
- A collaborative and innovative work environment in our R&D lab in Rotterdam
- The opportunity to directly influence the development of cutting-edge humanoid robotics
- Bi-weekly team lunches
- Weekly fresh fruit and snacks
- Lots of adventure and nice colleagues
- Fun team building activities
- €342 monthly compensation
SenseGlove is a Delft based startup that develops tools for Virtual Reality. At SenseGlove we see virtual and augmented reality as enabler an for real world applications. Our believe is that providing interactions with objects and persons equal to those in the real world is the only way to fully utilise the potential of VR and AR. That is why…
SenseGlove is a Delft based startup that develops tools for Virtual Reality. At SenseGlove we see virtual and augmented reality as enabler an for real world applications. Our believe is that providing interactions with objects and persons equal to those in the real world is the only way to fully utilise the potential of VR and AR. That is why we are creating the SenseGlove; The SenseGlove provides the most natural interaction in virtual and augmented reality. With the SenseGlove virtual objects are brought to live, you can feel, touch and interact with them as if they are real.
The Sense Glove is an exoskeleton glove that enables touch in Virtual Reality. The Glove is originally developed as a medical device for hand rehabilitation. By measuring 16 degrees of freedom of the hand it accurately tracks the movement. Small servomotors will restrict the motion of your hand when a virtual object is touched. The exoskeleton can be kept as small as possible due to the Z linkages that fold inward, all natural movements of the hand can be performed when the glove is worn.
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