Thinking Robots Timeline

Events

• 2022-07-22 - Award - NASA awards Thinking Robots $149,945 TRACS deep-space SBIR - The project used the operational TRACS architecture at technology readiness level 5 as the basis for a spacecraft cognitive agent. TRACS combined decision-making under uncertainty with natural-language interaction, one-shot learning, fault detection and… - source: sbir.gov
• 2021-01-01 - Award - NSF awards Thinking Robots $253,836 disinfection-robotics SBIR - The project paired a flat carrier robot for existing disinfection devices with a tethered robot that supplied power from wall-connected docking stations. The robots were designed to navigate indoor environments together while avoiding tether entanglement and… - source: sbir.gov
• 2010-10-18 - Award - U.S. Navy awards Thinking Robots autonomous-vehicle dialogue SBIR - The Phase I award funded an integrated robot architecture combining natural-language dialogue, high-level planning and gesture-based interaction. The proposed system built on DIARC capabilities previously demonstrated in spoken search-and-rescue… - source: sbir.gov