TECH FRONT
National Science Foundation, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Agriculture and NASA, on Nov. 19 announced $31.5 million in new awards to spur the development and use of co-robots—robots that work cooperatively with people. The awards are the third round of funding made through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), a multi-agency pro- gram launched in September 2012 as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Initiative, with NSF as the lead federal agency. “Robots and robotic systems have the potential to aug- ment human abilities, improve our quality of life and perform dangerous tasks unsuitable for people,” said Suzi Iacono, act- ing assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at NSF. “Working with our federal partners in NRI has spurred new research directions that weren’t previously possible without these collaborations.” Ranging from $300,000 to $1.8 million over one to four years, these 52 new research awards advance fundamental
understanding of robotic sensing, motion, computer vision, machine learning and human-computer interaction. The awards include efforts to develop soft robots that are safer for human interaction, determine how humans can lead teams of robots in recovery situations and design robots that can check aging infrastructure and map remote geographic areas. A full listing of the NRI investments made by NSF is available on NSF’s NRI Program page.
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