# | Lead PI | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | John Zimmerman | NRI: FND: Human-Robot Collaboration with Distributed and Embodied Intelligence | | 1734456 |
2 | Junaed Sattar | NRI: Collaborative Research: Autonomous Quadrotors for 3D Modeling and Inspection of Outdoor Infrastructure |
| 1637875 |
3 | Masayoshi Tomizuka | NRI: FND: Safe and Efficient Robot Collaboration System (SERoCS) for Next Generation Intelligent Industrial Co-Robots |
| 1734109 |
6 | Wanliang Shan Carmel Majidi | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Soft Active Contact Pads with Tunable Stiffness and Adhesion for Customizable Robotic Grasping |
| 2006430 1830362 |
7 | Panagiotis Tsiotras | AstroSLAM - A Robust and Reliable Visual Localization and Pose Estimation Architecture for Space Robots in Orbit |
| 2101250 |
8 | Ajay Sharda | NRI: INT: COLLAB: An autonomous insect Sense, Identify, and Manage PLatform (SIMPL) to advance crop protection strategies |
| USDA |
9 | Matthew Spenko | NRI: FND: The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots and Navigation Safety |
| 1830642 |
10 | Marcia O'Malley | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Intuitive, Wearable Haptic Devices for Communication with Ubiquitous Robots |
| 1830146 |
11 | Sam Burden | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Design of dynamic multibehavioral robots: new tools to consider design tradeoff and enable more capable robotic systems |
| 1924303 |
12 | Hyun Soo Park | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Dense 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Actors in Natural Environments using Multiple Flying Cameras |
| 2022894 |
13 | Ann Majewicz Fey | NRI: FND: Customizable Haptic Co-Robots For Training Emergency Surgical Procedures |
| 2102250 |
14 | Robert Gregg | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Optimal Design of Robust Compliant Actuators for Ubiquitous Co-Robots |
| 1953908 |
15 | Laszlo Jeni | NRI: INT: A New Paradigm for Geometric Reasoning through Structure from Category |
| 1925281 |
16 | Wenlong Zhang | NRI: FND: Scalable and Customizable Intent Inference and Motion Planning for Socially-Adept Autonomous Vehicles |
| 1925403 |
17 | Dieter Fox | Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Object Manipulation |
| 2024057 |
18 | Howard Choset | NRI: INT: MANUFACTURING USA: COLLAB: In-Situ Collaborative Robotics in Confined Spaces |
| 1734360 1734461 |
20 | Panagiotis Artemiadis | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Anthropomorphic Robotic Ankle Prosthesis with Programmable Materials |
| 1830256 |
21 | Nuno Vasconcelos | NRI: FND: Towards Scalable and Self-Aware Robotic Perception |
| 1924937 |
Session 2: Tuesday, April 19, 4:30pm - 5:15pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Kris Hauser | NRI: INT: Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots Using Human Expertise |
| 2025782 |
2 | Sawyer Fuller | Visual Flight Control for the Very Smallest Aerial Vehicles |
| 2054850 |
3 | Zhaozheng Yin | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Manufacturing USA: Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration for Smart Factory |
| 1954548 |
5 | Chowdhary Girish | NRI:INT: Multipurpose Dexterous Soft and Continuum Arms for Compact Ag-bots |
| USDA 2019-67021-28989 |
6 | Robin Murphy | RAPID/Collaborative Research: Data Collection for Robot-Oriented Disaster Site Modeling at Champlain Towers South Collapse |
| 2140451 |
7 | Nicholas Fey | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Muscle Ultrasound Sensing for Intuitive Control of Robotic Leg Prostheses |
| 2054343 |
8 | Elliot Hawkes | CAREER: Physical Principles and Applications of Plant-Inspired Tip Growth for Robotics |
| 1944816 |
9 | Yu Zhang | EAGER: Reconciling Model Discrepancies in Human-Robot Teams |
| 1844524 |
10 | Aaron Steinfeld | NRI: FND: Mutually Aware Social Navigation |
| 1734361 |
11 | Robert Howe | NRI: FND: Robust Grasping by Integrating Machine Learning with Physical Models |
| 1924984 |
12 | Mohammad Khalid Jawed | NRI: FND: Physics-based training of robots for manipulation of ropes and clothes |
| 1925360 |
13 | Daniel Aukes | CAREER: Dynamic Modeling and Fabrication of Compliant Material Systems for On-Demand Specialist Robots |
| 1944789 |
15 | Naomi Fitter | Assistive Child-Robot Interventions for Infants with Motor Disabilities |
| 2024950 |
16 | Eric Frew | Collaborative Research: NRI: Dispersed Autonomy for Marsupial Aerial Robot Teams |
| 2133141 |
17 | Evgueni Filipov | Origami for Dexterity in Miniature Manipulation and Testing |
| 2054148 |
18 | David Cappelleri | NRI: Mobile Microrobots for Precision Medicine |
| NIH |
19 | Raymond Mooney | NRI: FND: Improving Robot Learning from Feedback and Demonstration using Natural Language |
| 1925082 |
20 | Ye Zhao | NRI: FND: Robust and Scalable Planning for Agile and Collaborative Robot Teammates in Complex Environments |
| 1924978 |
21 | Karydis Konstantinos | NRI: Integrated Soft Wearable Robotics Technology to Assist Arm Movement of Infants with Physical Impairments |
| 2133084 |
Session 3: Wednesday, April 20, 11:00am - 11:45am |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Reza Ehsani | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Distributed co-Robots for Strawberry Harvesting |
| 1924662 |
2 | Alberto Quattrini Li | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping |
| 2024541 |
3 | Yogesh Girdhar | NRI: An Ecologically Curious Robot for Monitoring Coral Reef Biodiversity |
| 2133029 |
5 | Deepak Pathak | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Scalable, Customizable, Robot Learning with Humans |
| 2024594 |
6 | Nina Mahmoudian | NRI: Co-Robots to Enhance Motivation and Self-efficacy in Formal STEM Education |
| 2133028 |
7 | Wenzhen Yuan | NRI: FND: Collaborative Research: DeepSoRo: High-dimensional Proprioceptive and Tactile Sensing and Modeling for Soft Grippers |
| 2024646 |
8 | Alan Kuntz | NRI: Liquid-Solid Metal for Embodied Intelligence in Semi-Soft, Human-Collaborative Robots |
| 2133027 |
9 | Tomonari Furukawa | Collaborative Research: NRI: Ocean-Powered Robots for Autonomous Offshore Aquaculture |
| USDA |
10 | Jana Kosecka | NRI: FND: Self-supervised Object Discovery, Detection and Visual Object Search |
| 1925231 |
11 | Paula Bylaska-Davies | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Transparent and intuitive teleoperation interfaces for the future nursing robots and workers |
| 2024689 |
12 | Abdeslam Boularias | NRI: Robust and Efficient Physics-based Learning and Reasoning in Degraded Environments |
| 2132972 |
13 | Robert Wood | NRI: FND: COLLAB: A Foundational Approach to Muscle Actuators that Lowers Barriers to Muscle-Powered Robotics Research |
| 1830291 |
14 | Elaine Short | NRI: Mutually Assistive Robotics |
| 2132887 |
15 | Mark Yim | Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Flying Swarm for Safe Human Interaction in Unstructured Environments |
| 2024692 |
16 | Matthew Travers | NRI: INT: Self-Assembly of Modular Robots Constructed using DNA: Modeling and Manufacturing Nanostructures with Graph Neural Networks and DNA Origami |
| 2132886 |
17 | Efstathios Bakolas | NRI: FND: Efficient algorithms for safety guiding mobile robots through spaces populated by humans and mobile intelligent machines and robots |
| 1924790 |
18 | Satyandra Gupta | NRI: FND: Human-Guided Robot Teams for Manipulating Large Flexible Sheets in Manufacturing Applications |
| 1925084 |
19 | Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee | NRI/Collaborative Research: Robot-Assisted Feeding: Towards Efficient, Safe, and Personalized Caregiving Robots |
| 2132846 |
20 | Woon-Hong Yeo | Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Customizable Lower-Limb Wearable Robot using Soft-Wearable Sensor to Assist Occupational Workers |
| 2024742 |
21 | Sebastian Elbaum | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Raining Drones: Mid-Air Release & Recovery of Atmospheric Sensing Systems |
| 1924777 |
Session 4: Wednesday, April 20, 4:30pm - 5:15pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Sehoon Ha | NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: Buoyancy-assisted Collaborative Robots That are Cheap, Safe, and Never Fall Down |
| 2024768 |
2 | Xiaolin Hu | Autonomy and Safety for Teamed Human-Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Fast Evolving Wildfire Management |
| USDA |
3 | Mrinal Kumar | Collaborative Research: NRI: Integration of Autonomous UAS in Wildland Fire Management |
| 2132799 |
4 | Alexander Leonessa Jing Du | NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: ForceBot: Customizable Robotic Platform for Body-Scale Physical Interaction Simulation in Virtual Reality |
| 2024784 |
5 | Prashant Doshi | NRI: FND: Robust Inverse Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration |
| 1830421 |
7 | Beiwen Li | NRI/Collaborative Research: Robotic Disassembly of High-Precision Electronic Devices |
| 2132773 |
8 | Laurel Riek | TAILORED: Training for Independent Living through Observant Robots and Design |
| 1915734 |
9 | Hao Su | NRI: FND: Soft Wearable Robots for Injury Prevention and Performance Augmentation |
| 1830613 |
10 | Shuran Song | NRI: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Robot Assistants |
| 2132519 |
11 | Anirban Mazumdar | NRI: FND: Rapid Operator Awareness via Mobile Robotics (ROAMR), Customizable Human Safety using Mobile and Wearable Co-Robots |
| 1830498 |
12 | Winslow Burleson | EAGER: Cyberlearning with Co-Robotic Teachable Agents |
| 2030441 |
13 | Dongming Gan | Discrete Variable Stiffness Actuators with Fast Stiffness Switch for Safe Human-Robot Interaction |
| 2131711 |
14 | Lydia Kavraki | NRI: FND: Robotic Collaboration through Scalable Reactive Synthesis |
| 1830549 |
16 | Kirstin Petersen | CAREER: Environmentally-Mediated Coordination in Natural and Robot Swarms |
| 2042411 |
17 | MinJun Kim | Collaborative Research: Magnetically-Controlled Modules with Reconfigurable Self-Assembly and Disassembly |
| 2130775 |
18 | Mac Schwager | NRI: FND: COLLAB: Distributed Semantically-Aware Tracking and Planning for Fleets of Robots |
| 1830402 |
19 | Anirudha Majumdar | CAREER: Generalization and Safety Guarantees for Learning-Based Control of Robots |
| 2044149 |
20 | Eleonora Botta | Modeling, Design and Operation of Robotic Tether-Net Systems for Reliable Capture of Targets |
| 2128578 |
21 | Ouyang Bing | Hybrid Aerial/Underwater Robotic System (HAUCS) for Scalable, Adaptable Maintenance of Aquaculture Fish Farms |
| USDA |
Session 5: Thursday, April 21, 11:00am - 11:45am |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Victoria Webster-Wood | CAREER: Adaptive Actuation and Control in Embodied Biohybrid Robots |
| 2044785 |
2 | Pranav Bhounsule | Asymmetric Gait Generation for Legged Locomotion in Complex Environments via Off-Line Model Reduction and Real-Time Optimal Control |
| 2128568 |
3 | Mark Campbell | NRI: FND: Probabilistic Hypothesis-Driven Adaptive Human-Robot Teams |
| 1830497 |
4 | Elin Bjorling | NRI: INT: Design and Development of a Social Robot for Gathering Ecological Momentary Stress Data from Teens |
| 1734100 |
5 | Dezhen Song | NRI: FND: Optoacoustic Material and Structure Pretouch Sensing at Robot Fingertip |
| 1925037 |
6 | Jianguo Zhao | Collaborative Research: Adaptive, Rapid, and Multifunctional Soft Robots (ARM SoRo) with Reconfigurable Shapes and Motions Enabled by Tunable Elastic Instabilities |
| 2126039 |
7 | Nikolay Atanasov | CAREER: Active Bayesian Inference for Collaborative Robot Mapping |
| 2045945 |
8 | Maja Mataric | NRI: FND: Communicate, Share, Adapt: A Mixed Reality Framework for Facilitating Robot Integration and Customization |
| 1925083 |
9 | John Whitney | NRI: FND: Controllable Compliance: A New Robotic Arm for Contact-Rich Manipulation |
| 1830425 |
10 | Richard Camilli Matt Walter | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Shared Autonomy for Unstructured Underwater Environments through Vision and Language |
| 1830500 1830660 |
11 | Konstantinos Karydis | CAREER: Morphological Computation for Resilient Dynamic Locomotion of Compliant Legged Robots with Application to Precision Agriculture |
| 2046270 |
12 | Jessy Grizzle | Learning-Aided Integrated Control and Semantic Perception Architecture for Legged Robot Locomotion and Navigation in the Wild |
| 2118818 |
13 | Andre Mazzoleni | MAARCO – Multi-terrain Amphibious ARCtic ExplOrer |
| 2116216 |
14 | Tommaso Lenzi | CAREER: Bio-inspired Multi-joint Design and Control for Efficient and Lightweight Wearable Robots |
| 2046287 |
15 | Pratik Chaudhari | NRI: Robotics, Science and Technology for Forestry |
| USDA |
16 | Thomas Shipley | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Co-Robotic Systems for GeoSciences Field Research |
| 1734365 |
17 | Minghui Zheng | CAREER: Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control |
| 2046481 |
18 | Ludovic Righetti | NRI: FND: Action-perception loops over 5G millimeter wave wireless for cooperative manipulation |
| 1925079 |
19 | Momotaz Begum | NRI: FND: Robust Learning of Sequential Motion from Human Demonstrations to Enable Robot-Guided Exercise Training |
| 1830597 |
20 | David Held | CAREER: Self-supervised Representation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation |
| 2046491 |
21 | Wenzhuo Wu | NRI: INT: FIngers See Things Differently (FIST-D): A Robotic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) based on Augmented Tactile Imaging |
| 1925194 |
Session 6: Thursday, April 21, 3:45pm - 4:30pm |
# | Principal Investigator | Award Title | Video | Award # |
1 | Yan Gu | CAREER: A Hybrid Filtering and Robust Control Framework for Legged Robot Locomotion on Dynamic Rigid Surfaces |
| 2046562 |
2 | Elliott Rouse | NRI: FND: COLLAB: An Open-Source Robotic Leg Platform that Lowers the Barrier for Advanced Prosthetics Research |
| 1734586 |
3 | Ryan Williams | CAREER: Robots that Plan Interactions, Come and Go, and Build Trust |
| 2046770 |
4 | Guoquan Huang | NRI: FND: Consistent distributed visual-inertial estimation and perception for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles |
| 1924897 |
5 | Joydeep Biswas | CAREER: Robust Perception and Customization for Long-Term Autonomous Mobile Service Robots |
| 2046955 |
6 | Michael Gleicher | NRI: FND: Communicating Physical Interactions |
| 1830242 |
7 | Lantao Liu | CAREER: Autonomous Live Sketching of Dynamic Environments by Exploiting Spatiotemporal Variations |
| 2047169 |
8 | Shashank Priya | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Rumen Understanding through Millipede-Engineered Navigation and Sensing (RUMENS) |
| USDA |
9 | Gil Weinberg | NRI: FND: Creating Trust Between Groups of Humans and Robots Using a Novel Music Driven Robotic Emotion Generator |
| 1925178 |
10 | Young-Hui Chang | NRI: INT: COLLAB: Accelerating Large-Scale Adoption of Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses through Personalized Prosthesis Controller Adaptation |
| 1734416 |
11 | Shiqi Zhang | NRI: FND: Knowledge-based Robot Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty |
| 1925044 |
12 | James Schmiedeler | NRI: FND: Using Template Models to Identify Exoskeleton User Intent |
| 1734532 |
13 | Ioannis Karamouzas | CAREER: Human-Inspired Multi-Robot Navigation |
| 2047632 |
14 | Carl Vondrick | NRI: FND: Learning Visual Dynamics from Interaction |
| 1925157 |
16 | Christopher Amato | NRI: FND: Coordinating and Incorporating Trust in Teams of Humans and Robots with Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning |
| 2024790 |
17 | Isuru Godage | CAREER: Transformable and Reconfigurable Soft Robots |
| 2048142 |
18 | Kiju Lee | NRI: CASS: Configurable, Adaptive, and Scalable Swarm of Ground and Aerial Robots for Collaborative Smart Agriculture |
| USDA |
19 | Stefanie Tellex | EAGER: A Gateway Drone for High School Students |
| 1940970 |
21 | Guy Hoffman | NRI: FND: Collaborative Control for Wearable Robots |
| 1734399 |