Project Grant 2033909

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a novel robotic arm architecture with enhanced reach, payload capacity, and affordability. The $304,952 award to Sol Robotics, Inc. will fund the creation of a robotic arm system that uses proprietary linear actuation technology in a parallel truss configuration to overcome limitations of traditional robot arms. The project...

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 Division of Industrial Innovation Project Grant awarded $256,000 to Grain Weevil Corporation of Aurora, Nebraska to develop a remote-controlled grain management and extraction robot. The 11-month project, which runs from March 2022 through December 2022, seeks to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a mobile robot for improving farmer safety and grain storage efficiencies. Key deliverables include classifying grain surface variables that impact robotic...

Tric Robotics Inc. received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an autonomous vehicle for application of alternative disease and pest control technologies. The SBIR program aims to support scientific innovation and build the national economy by funding small businesses engaged in federal research with commercial potential. Under this award dated July 1,...

This SBIR Phase II Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $999,999.00 in funding to Phlux Technologies, Inc. to develop an innovative 3D safety sensor system to enhance the efficiency and safety of human-robot collaboration. The project aims to create programmable 3D light curtains that can provide high-resolution 3D monitoring of specific user-defined boundaries, eliminating the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Purdue University to develop methods for heterogeneous teams of robots to physically interact and cooperate in performing search and rescue tasks in collapsed building environments. The $348,915 award from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 will enable the researchers to create symbiotic capabilities between different types of robots, such as small mobile microrobots...

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...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering), will provide $300,000 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on enabling quadrotor robots to safely interact with and assist humans through customized, user-taught functionalities. The research effort aims to develop a framework that allows anyone to safely...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Convergence Accelerator Track M grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a bio-inspired robotic system that can autonomously construct a floating conveyor network to transport palletized goods during flood events. This 12-month project, which commenced on January 15, 2024, seeks to address the growing threat of flooding in the New York City area by leveraging insights from slime mold behavior to craft swarm robot...

This five-year, $454,772 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund foundational research at The University of Akron to develop a new class of biomimetic microrobots for applications in targeted therapeutics, environmental remediation, and microscale cargo delivery. Inspired by collective animal behaviors like schooling fish and flocking birds, the microrobots will utilize off-center repulsive...