The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $131,176 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support a collaborative research project to develop a better understanding of the technical and socio-technical requirements for accelerating the use of collaborative robotics in manufacturing, mining, construction, and other industrial...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of a novel privacy framework for human-robot interaction over four phases from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. Phase I will model users' privacy concerns...
This $173,277 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund research to design social skills for robots to collaborate effectively with groups of people. The research team at the University of Chicago will develop three key social skills for robots: building rapport with groups, adapting to human-human relationships, and promoting group norms. These skills will be tested in laboratory studies with...
This National Science Foundation award provides $244,999 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop personalized augmentation tools for robot-assisted science homework. Researchers will partner with middle school teachers and students to co-design Pathwise, an open-source online system including a teacher authoring environment and student homework environment. The teacher tool will allow adding guidance to...
The University of Washington was awarded a $505,045 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research titled "Robot-Assisted Feeding: Towards Efficient, Safe, and Personalized Caregiving Robots." The three-year grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The research aims to advance the development of caregiving robots that can assist users with feeding in an efficient, safe and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the University of Chicago to design social robots capable of promoting equity in collaborative engineering student teams. The $249,998 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, will support the development of computational models to detect team inequities in real-time and robot behaviors to intervene and address those...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $100,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create a social robot research platform and AI algorithms. The key goals are to: 1) establish a community-based research infrastructure using repurposed Jibo robots, 2) engage with diverse research communities to understand their needs, and 3) develop a "living lab"...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $376,203 supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop new expressive and differentiable robotics simulators from 2022 to 2026. The research aims to address key limitations in existing simulators that hamper accurate physical modeling of robots and hinder closing the gap between simulation and real-world performance. Specifically, the researchers will establish the mathematical foundations for robotics simulators with...
This five-year, $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will fund research into community-embedded robotics through long-term autonomous deployments. The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the University of Texas System, will combine expertise in human-robot interaction, human factors, organizational communication, science and technology studies, team science, and research informatics. The project aims to study interactions...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a $916,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the "SHF: MEDIUM: PROGRAM SYNTHESIS FOR WEAK SUPERVISION" project from July 2021 through June 2025. The project aims to advance the development of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and...