Project Grant 1330154

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 in funding to Sufficiently Advanced, Inc. for the development of an AI-powered robotic control system. The objective is to enhance automation capabilities and create a more adaptive future labor force by automating repetitive, dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks across various industries. The Phase I project will focus on advancing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) project grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FW-HTF-RM: HUMAN-IN-THE-LEAD CONSTRUCTION ROBOTICS: FUTURE-PROOFING FRAMING CRAFT WORKERS IN INDUSTRIALIZED CONSTRUCTION", was awarded to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for $263,595 with a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The goal of this research is to establish the technical and social foundations that promote...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund the development of an interactive multi-human multi-remote-robot collaboration framework for the construction industry at Purdue University from October 2022 to September 2023. The goal is to improve operational efficiency and address challenges like labor shortages through new approaches for collaborative...

This $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a suite of software that automatically routes building services systems through 3D obstructed space to achieve near-optimal, clash-free solutions. The project involves developing a highly efficient 3D modeling environment using "low-resolution surface tessellation" to minimize data storage and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Crabline Robotics LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop a dexterous, crab-like aquatic robot platform for underwater construction and decommissioning of structures. The project seeks to create a new class of aquatic robotics capable of stabilizing around a target and precisely delivering tools, such as exothermic cutting rods, to underwater structures. This...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $699,570 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research. The purpose of this 3-year award, effective October 1, 2023, is to develop a "Human-in-the-Lead Construction Robotics" (HILCR) system that integrates industrial robotic arms to support craft workers in industrialized construction tasks. The research aims to transform robotics-based automation in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is funding the development and demonstration of a Social, Assistive Mobile Manipulator (SAMM) software suite. The $399,988 award to Charles River Analytics, Inc. will prototype an assistive technology that integrates a commercially available robotic system with a novel software framework for manipulation,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $596,285, was provided to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop a systematic and generalizable methodology for integrating vision-language models and robotics to fully automate manufacturing assembly operations. The key products and services to be delivered include: Interpreting product manufacturing information and process instructions to derive high-level task sequences from various input...

This $275,000 SBIR Phase I project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) aims to develop software capabilities to improve automated harvesting of strawberries. The project will implement two key components: A trajectory optimization module for a robot manipulator's camera to maximize information gain and reduce localization uncertainty for strawberries while respecting kinematic and collision...

The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University a $150,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds the development of an Inspector Assistant Robot for Future Construction Progress Monitoring. The robot will assist construction inspectors by monitoring construction sites and projects to help ensure compliance with...