Project Grant 2615835
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $287,417 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish fundamental understanding of how interactions and relationships among clinicians with robotic surgical teammates will change and what cognitive and interpersonal skills are needed to facilitate safe and effective robotic surgeries. The project aims to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Washington $187,587 on January 1, 2027, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support fundamental research on human-inspired cyber-physical security in human-robot interactions. The research develops models of human decision-making in adversarial contexts, methods for identifying robot vulnerabilities to physical attack, and control strategies that allow robots to resist...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) awarded $657,210 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on November 1, 2025, for a collaborative cybertraining project focused on expanding the use of digital twin technologies in robotics. The award, which extends through October 31, 2028, supports the development of open instructional materials and comprehensive training programs designed to equip...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin–Madison received a $370,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) project delivers research and development of programmable soft microrobots capable of amoeboid locomotion within confined and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $459,300 to the University of Washington on October 1, 2025, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop methodologies for understanding cyber-physical resilience in continuous critical manufacturing systems using Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) technologies. The project will build generalizable tools, detection measures, and control strategies to integrate IIoT network...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp six hundred thousand dollars on July 15, 2026, for research on cybersecurity in remotely controlled robots under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project develops a security framework protecting remote-controlled and cloud-connected systems by performing control computations directly on encrypted data while embedding a detection mechanism that...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Virginia $839,037 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance research in cyber-physical-cognitive systems for human-robot teaming. The project establishes scientific foundations for robots that can reason about human partners' goals, beliefs, and expectations, enabling proactive assistance and safe collaboration even when...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Texas at Dallas a $309,669 CAREER grant effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2030, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This project grant supports research into improving the attack resilience of robotic systems through a comprehensive cross-domain security framework that addresses vulnerabilities spanning both...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin System $373,985 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) on October 1, 2025, to develop a human-centered cybersecurity framework for robotic-assisted surgery cyberinfrastructure. The project creates algorithms and training materials to detect, identify, and mitigate cyberattacks in robotic surgery systems by integrating data analytics with healthcare human factors. Research activities include identifying cybersecurity perspectives of surgical stakeholders through qualitative research; designing a data-driven attack detection and identification framework using graphical neural networks and multimodal high-dimensional data fusion; and developing and validating robotic surgery cybersecurity training materials and mitigation strategies. The work addresses data-integrity attacks that interfere with critical real-time surgical data and compromise patient safety in environments where increased data sharing and artificial intelligence have expanded cyberinfrastructure vulnerabilities. Work is performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, with a period of performance from October 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026. The University of Washington, led by PI Dan Li, serves as sub-recipient responsible for the design, development, numerical validation, and documentation of cyber-physical data analytics and algorithmic methods supporting human-centered cybersecurity in robotic-assisted surgery. The University of Washington develops formal cyber-physical threat models for data-integrity attacks including sensor spoofing and controller manipulation; designs and implements data-driven attack impact quantification frameworks fusing heterogeneous multimodal data; and develops real-time cyberattack detection and identification algorithms with machine-readable detection confidence metrics. The sub-award was obligated on April 28, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 2/20/26 | ||
| Not listed | $374.0k | 2/10/26 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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CON00006506S | University Of Washington | Project Grant 2615835 | $228.2k | 5/31/26 |