Federal Grant Award Summary

Award Details: Puti Intelligence Inc. received a $304,736 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) under CFDA 47.084, awarded July 15, 2026, with a completion date of June 30, 2027.

Products and Services: This Phase I project focuses on developing a unified 3D perception model that enables robots to see and understand their environments in real time. The core deliverable is an advanced neural network architecture featuring a shared-backbone system that simultaneously performs localization, dense mapping, and semantic object recognition while inferring complete 3D geometry of partially occluded objects. By consolidating multiple perception tasks into a single image encoder, the solution overcomes computational limitations that typically prevent complex perception models from running efficiently on mobile robotic platforms. The technology leverages generalizable Gaussian splatting techniques to reconstruct full 3D room maps, identify specific objects, and predict hidden shapes of partially visible items, even under poor lighting or obstructed views. These capabilities are designed to enable robotics startups to develop smarter machines for applications including infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, and emergency response operations.