Project Grant 1321056

This five-year, $548,928 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research into developing robots that can learn about their environments through natural spoken language interactions with diverse groups of people. The principal investigator at the University of Maryland Baltimore County will study how robots can acquire an understanding of...

This Project Grant award for $50,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop a framework for learning complex, long-horizon tasks from few-shot vision-language demonstrations. The primary objective is to enable robots to learn personalized tasks through natural interactions with users, who can provide visual demonstrations combined with language narration. The research leverages large language models to summarize vision-language...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totals $749,654 to develop an intelligent immersive learning environment for robotics education. Florida International University will research, develop and test an AI-assisted adaptive learning system delivering an industrial robotics curriculum through virtual reality. Key innovations include adaptive intelligent tutoring, AI-coaching detecting learner failure patterns,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,300,000 to the University of Virginia to develop low-cost, adaptable physical computing tools such as robots to provide equitable opportunities for elementary and middle school students to learn computer science (CS) skills and concepts. The project aims to investigate how these educational robots can help students develop CS understanding and executive functioning skills, while...

The University of California, Santa Barbara will use a $301,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop an artificial intelligence framework for transforming online introductory STEM video lectures. The framework will extract gestures and voice from existing instructor-led videos and reconfigure them into agent-based presentations delivered by a diverse set of emotionally and socially sensitive animated on-screen...

This five-year, $205,073 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at Tufts University to develop methods for transferring multisensory object knowledge across collaborative robots. The Principal Investigator will work to enable robots with different bodies, sensors and movement capabilities to learn from each other's experiences manipulating and perceiving objects through various senses. This...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $100,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a community research infrastructure platform using repurposed Jibo robots. The goal is to create a shared resource that enables research on developing social and emotional intelligence capabilities for robots, especially in domains like healthcare and companionship. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded $300,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of California, Davis for a project titled "EAGER: Building a Foundation for Hands-on STEM Learning at a Distance: Pedagogical Agents for Embodied Education in Virtual Reality." The two-year project beginning August 1, 2022 will develop embodied pedagogical agents in a virtual environment to facilitate maker education tasks focusing on electronic...

This $150,838 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop a student-centered, personalized learning framework to advance undergraduate robotics education. The project's central goals are to: 1) study the impacts of low-cost simulation and affordable hardware on robotics education, and 2) compare a student-centered, personalized learning approach to traditional teacher-centered pedagogy. The project will be implemented through a...