# | Lead PI | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Wenlong Zhang | NRI: FND: Scalable and Customizable Intent Inference and Motion Planning for Socially-Adept Autonomous Vehicles | | 1925403 |
2 | Nancey Green Leigh | NRI: FND: Barriers and Solutions for Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers' Collaborative Robot Adoption | | 2024706 |
3 | Nitish Thakor | NRI: FND: Scalable, Customizable Sensory Solutions for Dexterous Robotic Hands | | 1849417 |
4 | Momotaz Begum | NRI: FND: Robust Learning of Sequential Motion from Human Demonstrations to Enable Robot-guided Exercise Training | | 1830597 |
5 | David Shepherd | NRI: FND: End-User Robot Programming | | 2024561 |
6 | Roberto Tron | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Robust, scalable, distributed semantic mapping for search-and-rescue and manufacturing co-robots | | 1734454 |
7 | Peter Whitney | NRI: FND: Controllable Compliance: A New Robotic Arm for Contact-Rich Manipulation | | 1830425 |
8 | Erin Walker | NRI: INT: Designing Effective Dialogue, Gaze, and Gesture Behaviors in a Social Robot that Supports Collaborative Learning in Middle School Mathematics | | 2024645 |
9 | Maja Mataric | NRI: FND: Communicate, Share, Adapt: A Mixed Reality Framework for Facilitating Robot Integration and Customization | | 1925083 |
10 | Ioannis Rekleitis | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping | | 2024741 |
11 | Joseph Schimmels | NRI: FND: Dexterous Manipulation Using Multi-Serial Manipulator Systems with Real-Time Compliance Modulation | | 2024554 |
12 | Carrick Detweiler | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Raining Drones: Mid-Air Release & Recovery of Atmospheric Sensing Systems | | 1925052 |
13 | Vishesh Vikas | NRI:FND:COLLAB: M3SoRo - Mobility and Morphing using Modular Soft Robots | | 1830432 |
14 | Winslow Burleson | EAGER: Cyberlearning with Co-Robotic Teachable Agents | | 1941053 |
15 | Sebastian Scherer | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Dense 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Actors in Natural Environments using Multiple Flying Cameras | | 2024173 |
16 | Kris Hauser | NRI: INT: Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots using Human Expertise | | 1830366 |
17 | Cynthia Matuszek | NRI: FND: Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Domain Adaptation in Robotic Language Acquisition | | 2024878 |
18 | Katherine Driggs-Campbell | NRI: INT: Increasing the Level of Autonomy for Agricultural Robots Through Effective Interaction and Programming Paradigms | | 2021-67021-33449 |
19 | Frank Sup IV | NRI: FND: Natural Power Transmission through Unconstrained Fluids for Robotic Manipulation | | 2024409 |
20 | Stefanie Tellex | EAGER: A Gateway Drone for High School Students | | 1940970 |
21 | Jose Pons | NRI: INT: Co-Robot Controllers for Human-Like Physical Interaction and Improved Motor Learning | | 2024488 |
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Session 2: Wednesday, March 10, 4:00pm - 4:45pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | | Award # |
1 | He Bai | NRI: INT: Safe Wind-Aware Navigation for Collaborative Autonomous Aircraft in Low Altitude Airspace | | 1925147 |
2 | Kaveh Akbari Hamed | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Hierarchical Safe, and Distributed Feedback Control of Multiagent Legged Robots for Cooperative Locomotion and Manipulation | | 1924617 |
3 | Xu Xu | NRI: FND: A Novel Intervention Method to Promote Workers' Safety Awareness and Mental Health During Human-Robot Collaboration | | 2024688 |
4 | Nuno Vasconcelos | NRI: FND: Towards Scalable and Self-Aware Robotic Perception | | 1924937 |
5 | Robert Shepherd | NRI: INT: Ubiquitous Soil Sampling Robots for Confluent Soil Monitoring | | 2021-67021-33843 |
6 | Michael Gleicher | NRI:FND: Communicating Physical Interactions | | 1830242 |
7 | Zhaozheng Yin | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Manufacturing USA: Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration for Smart Factory | | 1830479 |
8 | Sarah Ostadabbas | NRI: EAGER: Teaching Aerial Robots to Perch Like a Bat via AI-guided Design and Control | | 1944964 |
9 | Aaron Johnson | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Design of dynamic multibehavioral robots: new tools to consider design tradeoff and enable more capable robotic systems | | 1924723 |
10 | Zhaojian Li | NRI: INT: SMART: Soft Multi-Arm RoboT for Synergistic Collaboration with Humans | | 2024649 |
11 | Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Cooperative Robotic Systems for Precision Agriculture and Plant Health Management | | 2020-67021-30755 |
12 | Stavros Vougioukas | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Tree Fruit Harvesting with Arrays of Vision-Guided Linear Robot Arms | | 2020-67021-30759 |
13 | Corina Barbalata | NRI: FND: Collaborative Mobile Manufacturing in Uncertain Scenarios | | 2024795 |
14 | Jana Kosecka | NRI: FND: Self-supervised Object Discovery, Detection and Visual Object Search | | 1925231 |
15 | Michael Posa | NRI: FND: Contact-aware Control of Dynamic Manipulation | | 1830218 |
16 | Yogesh Girdhar | NRI: INT: Co-Multi-Robotic Exploration of the Benthic Seafloor - New Methods for Distributed Scene Understanding and Exploration in the Presence of Communication Constraints | | 1734400 |
17 | Philip Dames | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Distributed, Semantically-Aware Tracking and Planning for Fleets of Robots | | 1830419 |
18 | Dusan Stipanovic | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Multi-Vehicle Systems for Collecting Shadow-Free Imagery in Precision Agriculture | | 2020-67021-30756 |
19 | Myunghee Kim | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Customizable Lower-Limb Wearable Robot using Soft-Wearable Sensor to Assist Occupational Workers | | 2024863 |
20 | Hao Su | NRI: FND: Soft Wearable Robots for Injury Prevention and Performance Augmentation | | 1830613 |
21 | Ann Majewicz Fey | NRI: FND: Customizable Haptic Co-Robots For Training Emergency Surgical Procedures | | 2024839 |
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Session 3: Thursday, March 11, 11:45am - 12:30pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | | Award # |
1 | Ye Zhao | NRI: FND: Robust and Scalable Planning for Agile and Collaborative Robot Teammates in Complex Environments | | 1924978 |
2 | Nikolay Atanasov | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Distributed Bayesian Learning and Safe Control for Autonomous Wildfire Detection | | 1830399 |
3 | Efstathios Bakolas | NRI: FND: Efficient algorithms for safety guiding mobile robots through spaces populated by humans and mobile intelligent machines and robots | | 1924790 |
4 | Kenneth Bogert | NRI:FND:Robust Inverse Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration | | 1830421 |
5 | Nadya Peek | NRI: FND: Multi-Manipulator Extensible Robotic Platforms | | 2024435 |
6 | Peter Adamczyk | NRI: FND: Hybrid Active-Passive Actuation for Safety and Performance in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration and Rehabilitation | | 1830516 |
7 | Yunjun Xu | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Distributed co-Robots for Strawberry Harvesting | | 1924622 |
8 | Nabil Simaan | NRI: INT: MANUFACTURING USA: COLLAB: In-Situ Collaborative Robotics in Confined Spaces | | 1734461 |
9 | Calin Belta | NRI: FND: A Formal Methods Approach to Safe, Composable, and Distributed Reinforcement Learning for co-Robots | | 2024606 |
10 | Naomi Fitter | NRI: FND: Assistive Child-Robot Interventions for Infants with Motor Disabilities | | 2024950 |
11 | Hyunglae Lee | User-Adaptive and Safe Control of a Wearable Upper-Extremity Exoskeleton Robot | | 1925110 |
12 | Zeynep Temel | NRI: INT: Dexterous Compliant Manipulation Using Delta Robot Arrays | | 2024794 |
13 | Michael Rubenstein | Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Flying Swarm for Safe Human Interaction in Unstructured Environments | | 2024615 |
14 | Melanie Moses | NRI: INT: Adaptive Bio-inspired Co-Robot algorithms for volcano monitoring | | 2024520 |
15 | Juan Wachs | NRI: INT: FIngers See Things Differently (FIST-D): A Robotic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) based on Augmented Tactile Imaging | | 1925194 |
16 | Yiannis Ampatzidis | NRI: INT: COLLAB: High Throughput Multi-Robot Weed Management for Specialty Crops | | 2020-67021-30761 |
17 | Stefano Carpin | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Mobile Robotic Lab for In-Situ Sampling and Measurement | | 2021-67022-33452 |
18 | Elliot Hawkes | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Mesh Of Robots on a Pneumatic Highway (MORPH): An Untethered, Human-Safe, Shape-Morphing Robotic Platform | | 1925373 |
19 | Bilge Mutlu | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Program Verification and Synthesis for Collaborative Robots | | 1925043 |
20 | Ludovic Righetti | NRI: FND: Action-perception loops over 5G millimeter wave wireless for cooperative manipulation | | 1925079 |
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Session 4: Thursday, March 11, 4:00pm - 4:45pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | | Award # |
1 | Karen Liu | NRI: FND: Computational and Interactive Design of Soft Growing Robot Manipulators | | 2024247 |
2 | Alexander Leonessa | NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: A Robotic Platform for Body-Scale Human Physical Interaction in Embodied Virtual Reality | | 2024772 |
3 | Tucker Hermans | Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Learning Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Object Manipulation | | 2024778 |
4 | Masoud Gheisari | NRI: FND: Investigating the Safety Challenges of Co-drones in Future Construction Workplaces | | 2024656 |
5 | Dezhen Song | NRI: FND: Optoacoustic Material and Structure Pretouch Sensing at Robot Fingertip | | 1925037 |
6 | Anirban Mazumdar | NRI: FND: Rapid Operator Awareness via Mobile Robotics (ROAMR), Customizable Human Safety using Mobile and Wearable Co-Robots | | 1830498 |
7 | Zhi Li | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Transparent and Intuitive Teleoperation Interfaces for the Future Nursing Robots and Workers | | 2024802 |
8 | Michael Yip | NRI: FND: COLLAB: A Foundational Approach to Muscle Actuators that Lowers Barriers to Muscle-Powered Robotics Research | | 1830403 |
9 | Carl Vondrick | NRI: FND: Learning Visual Dynamics from Interaction | | 1925157 |
10 | Raymond Mooney | NRI: FND: Improving Robot Learning from Feedback and Demonstration using Natural Language | | 1925082 |
11 | Francois Guimbretiere | NRI:INT: Integrating Robotic and AI Technologies to Support Embodied Collaborative Design | | 1925100 |
12 | Pieter Abbeel | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Scalable, Customizable, Robot Learning with Humans | | 2024675 |
13 | Florence Sullivan | NRI:FND:COLLAB: Girls Immersed in Robotics Learning Simulations (GIRLS) | | 1830450 |
14 | Shiqi Zhang | NRI: FND: Knowledge-based Robot Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty | | 1925044 |
15 | Guoquan Huang | NRI: FND: Consistent distributed visual-inertial estimation and perception for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles | | 1924897 |
16 | Joao Ramos | NRI: FND: Immersive whole-body teleoperation of wheeled humanoid robots for dynamic mobil manipulation | | 2024775 |
17 | Ermin Wei | NRI: INT: Robotic Shepherding for Flow Control in Uncertain Dynamic Environments | | 2024774 |
18 | Mohammad Khalid Jawed | NRI: FND: Physics-based training of robots for manipulation of ropes and clothes | | 1925360 |
19 | Gil Weinberg | NRI: FND: Creating Trust Between Groups of Humans and Robots Using a Novel Music Driven Robotic Emotion Generator | | 1925178 |
20 | Kostas Bekris | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Integrated Modeling and Learning for Robust Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation with Adaptive Hands | | 1734492 |
21 | Natasha Banerjee | NRI: FND: Using Multi-Modal Data to Make Robotic Grasp Algorithms Aware of Human Preferences for Safe Collaborative Robot-Human Handover Interactions with Novel Objects | | 2023998 |
22 | Aaron Dollar | NRI: Rethinking Multi-Legged Robots: Passive Terrain Adaptability through Underactuated Mechanisms and Exactly-Constrained Kinematics | | 1637647 |
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Session 5: Friday, March 12, 11:00am - 11:45am |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | | Award # |
1 | Elin Bjorling | NRI:INT: Design and Development of a Social Robot for Gathering Ecological Momentary Stress Data from Teens | | 1734100 |
2 | Conor Walsh | NRI: INT: Wearable Robots for the Community: Personalized Assistance using Human-in-the-loop Optimization | | 1925085 |
3 | Carmel Majidi | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Soft Active Contact Pads with Tunable Stiffness and Adhesion for Customizable Robotic Grasping | | 1830362 |
4 | Marynel Vazquez | NRI: FND: Spatial Patterns of Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction Under Environmental Spatial Constraints | | 1924802 |
5 | Domen Novak | NRI: FND: The Robotic Rehab Gym: Specialized co-robot trainers working with multiple human trainees for optimal learning outcomes | | 2024813 |
6 | Robert Howe | NRI: FND: Robust Grasping by Integrating Machine Learning with Physical Models | | 1924984 |
7 | Steve Collins | NRI: INT: Individualized Co-Robotics | | 1734449 |
8 | Daniel Koditschek | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Co-Robotic Systems for GeoSciences Field Research | | 1734355 |
9 | Stefanos Nikolaidis | NRI: FND: Improving Human-Robot Collaboration on Assembly Tasks by Anticipating Human Actions | | 2024936 |
10 | Satyandra Gupta | NRI: FND: Human-Guided Robot Teams for Manipulating Large Flexible Sheets in Manufacturing Applications | | 1925084 |
11 | Alan Wagner | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Interactive and collaborative robot-assisted emergency evacuations | | 1830390 |
12 | Marc Killpack | NRI: FND: Foundations for Physical Co-Manipulation with Mixed Teams of Humans and Soft Robots | | 2024792 |
13 | Laszlo Jeni | NRI: INT: A New Paradigm for Geometric Reasoning through Structure from Category | | 1925281 |
14 | Cynthia Breazeal | NRI: INT: Collaborative Development, Deployment and Evaluation of Personalized Learning Companion Robots for Early Literacy and Language Learning | | 1734443 |
15 | Zhuoyuan Song | NRI: FND: Collaborative Navigation, Learning, and Collaboration in Fluids with Application to Ubiquitous Marine Co-Robots | | 2024928 |
16 | Hadas Kress Gazit | NRI:INT: Ad-hoc collaborative human-robot swarms | | 1830471 |
17 | Brittany Duncan | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Leveraging Environmental Monitoring UAS in Rainforests | | 1925368 |
18 | Oliver Kroemer | NRI: INT: Agile and Dynamic Interactions for Mobile Manipulation | | 1925130 |
19 | Matthew Spenko | NRI: FND: The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots and Navigation Safety | | 1830642 |
20 | Ken Goldberg | NRI: INT: SCHooL: Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning | | 1734633 |
21 | Laurel Riek | SCH: INT: TAILORED: Training for Independent Living through Observant Robots and Design | | 1915734 |
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Session 6: Friday, March 12, 2:15pm - 3:00pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | | Award # |
1 | John Rieffel | EAGER: Behavioral Repertoires for Soft Robotics | | 1939930 |
2 | Sehoon Ha | NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: Buoyancy-assisted Collaborative Robots That are Cheap, Safe, and Never Fall Down. | | 2024949 |
3 | Cindy Grimm | Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Grounded Reasoning about Robot Capabilities for Law and Policy | | 2024872 |
4 | YuMing Zhang | NRI: FND: Intelligent Co-robots for Complex Welding Manufacturing through Learning and Generalization of Welders Capabilities | | 2024614 |
5 | Naira Hovakimyan | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Synergetic Drone Delivery Network in Metropolis | | 1830639 |
6 | Ryan Williams | NRI: INT: Balancing Collaboration and Autonomy for Multi-Robot Multi-Human Search and Rescue | | 1830414 |
7 | Lydia Kavraki | NRI: FND: Robotic Collaboration through Scalable Reactive Synthesis | | 1830549 |
8 | Ian Walker | NRI: FND: 3D Concrete Printing with Macro-Micro Robots | | 1924721 |
9 | Edwin Olson | NRI: FND: Connected and Continuous Multi-Policy Decision Making | | 1830615 |
10 | Eric Rombokas | NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: An Open-Source Framework for Continuous Torque Control of Intuitive Robotic Prosthetic Legs | | 2024446 |
11 | Christopher Amato | NRI: FND: Coordinating and Incorporating Trust in Teams of Humans and Robots with Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning | | 2024790 |
12 | Bradley Hayes | NRI: FND: Life-long Learning for Motion Planning by Robots in Human Populated Environments | | 1830686 |
13 | Diane Cook | NRI: INT: Learning-Enabled Robot Support of Daily Activities for Successful Activity Completion | | 1734558 |
14 | Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler | NRI: INT: MiaPURE (Modular, Interactive and Adaptive Personalized Unique Rolling Experience) | | 2024905 |
15 | Sierra Young | NRI: INT: Development of a Customizable Fleet of Autonomous Co-Robots for Advancing Aquaculture Production | | 2021-67021-33451 |
16 | Tommaso Lenzi | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Muscle Ultrasound Sensing for Intuitive Control of Robotic Leg Prostheses | | 1925371 |
17 | Christoffer Heckman | NRI: INT: Autonomous Restoration and Revegetation of Degraded Ecosystems | | 2021-67021-33450 |
18 | Matthew Walter | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Shared Autonomy for Unstructured Underwater Environments through Vision and Language | | 1830660 |
19 | Marin Kobilarov | NRI:FND: Unifying standard physics-based control with learning-based perception and action to enable safe and agile object manipulation using unmanned aerial vehicles | | 1925189 |
20 | Leonardo Bobadilla | NRI: FND: Extending Autonomy in Seemingly Sensory-Denied Environments Applied to Underwater Robots | | 2024733 |
21 | Veronica Ahumada-Newhart | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots for Homebound Children | | 2024933 |