The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research to develop robotic perception and manipulation capabilities using full-spectral wireless sensing technologies. Specifically, the grant supports three interconnected research thrusts. First, MIT researchers will develop new terahertz frequency sensing...
This $425,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a framework for ensuring the safety of future robotic systems. The research project, led by The Trustees of Princeton University, aims to lay the foundation for safe robot autonomy by enabling robots to continually prove the safety of their actions under a wide range of operating conditions, from complex physical...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $545,980 Project Grant to Princeton University from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research at Princeton University to develop generalization and safety guarantees for learning-based control of robots. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, supports a research project titled "CAREER: ACTIVE SCENE UNDERSTANDING BY AND FOR ROBOT MANIPULATION" at Stanford University. The $130,000 grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop a self-improving robot perception system that leverages manipulation skills for active scene understanding. The key focus is on enabling robots to...
This $272,290 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems will fund the development of visual tactile neural fields (VTNF) for active digital twin generation by robots. The grant supports research by The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania under the NSF's $47.07 million Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The researchers will create a new VTNF data representation that allows robots to combine visual and...
This $349,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Rice University to develop new robotics capabilities under uncertainty. The NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation is funding this three-year award through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the researchers will establish generic frameworks for robot manipulation systems to self-identify using exploratory motions while maintaining stability. By changing the traditional...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $199,498 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The award, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, aims to develop advanced technologies to enable intelligent robots to efficiently and autonomously interact with objects in everyday human environments, such as homes and retail stores, based on natural language task descriptions. The...
This $800,000 Project Grant award to The Trustees of Princeton University, Department of Research and Project Administration, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award aims to develop new techniques for constructing a vision-based safety supervisor that can endow autonomous robotic systems, such as self-driving cars and home robots, with the safety property of "graceful degradation."...
This Project Grant award of $399,966 from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation supports the development of a scalable intelligent backscatter-based radio frequency sensor network for self-diagnosis of structures. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, will utilize the funding to advance research that enables the creation of a...