Foundational Research in Robotics
Funds foundational robotics — and asks three questions of every proposal: is there a robot, does it gain a capability, is robotics essential.
This programme is run jointly by NSF's computing and engineering directorates, and it funds robotic systems that are demanding both computationally and physically.
NSF defines a robot for its own purposes: intelligence embodied in an engineered construct, able to process information, sense, plan, and move within or substantially alter its working environment. Intelligence here is broad — any meth…
Foundational robotics research on systems with significant computational capability and physical complexity — intelligence, computation and embodiment together or separately, provided the work is justified in the context of a class of robots and makes a fundamental contribution to robotics.
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