This is a $253,317.32 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University. The award is for research and development of collaborative robotic manipulation techniques to enable space exploration applications such as on-orbit construction and human-robot collaboration. The work aims to develop decentralized algorithms and optimization strategies for teams of robots to...
This federal contract award, valued at $252,000.00, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research related to robotics and autonomy in space exploration. The contract is a grant for research, with an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2027. Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, will leverage its expertise in areas such as engineering, computer science, and...
This is a $264,157.90 research grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for the development of a novel robotic design that combines mobility and manipulation capabilities for space environments. The award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Stanford's status as a leading research institution competing for federal work. Stanford University has a long history of receiving both prime and...
This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) aims to develop adhesion-based grasping and manipulation capabilities for assistive free-flyers in space environments. The $625,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center will fund research into mechanisms for grasping and manipulating payloads, supplies, and tools inside and outside spacecraft using controllable adhesives inspired by gecko feet. The...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC24K1343, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for a grant to conduct research on robots operating in uncertain space environments. The $336,000.00 award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Stanford's status as a leading research institution. Under this grant, Stanford will focus on enabling robots to construct and continuously refine their...
This is a $524,396 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to execute a balanced science program. The contract directs Stanford to perform scientific research related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond as part of NASA's exploration initiative. The work will also focus on advancing discovery in emerging fields through cross-disciplinary opportunities. Additionally, Stanford will develop user-focused...
This federal grant award to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University, aims to develop new theoretical and algorithmic frameworks that enable mobile robots to safely and efficiently navigate unknown environments. The $303,813.98 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will support research into using machine learning techniques to intelligently reason about unobserved environments beyond a...
This is a federal training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University, for the 2015 Graduate Aeronautics Scholarship program. The contract has a ceiling value of $101,422.00 and a completion date of January 25, 2018. Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, was selected as the prime contractor for this award. The contract does not have a set-aside designation,...
This is a $29,978 cooperative agreement awarded to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a project related to "SINGLE SOURCE, SHAPE ERROR IN VOXEL ASSEMBLIES" with a completion date of March 28, 2025. Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, has a significant history of federal contract and...
This is a $499,557.95 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University. The goal of the project is to develop a risk-sensitive framework for learning and decision-making that allows intelligent physical systems (IPS) to operate autonomously in unknown environments without continuous control or supervision. The key technical objectives are to create probabilistic dynamics models, devise learning and decision-making algorithms that...