Dr. Santos was awarded $340k as part of a four-year grant to Dr. Laurel Riek, Director of the UC San Diego Healthcare Robotics Lab. The project is titled, “Robot-facilitated Health Equity in Post-Pandemic California and Beyond.” This award enables collaboration with research teams at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Irvine, and San Diego State University. The goal is to advance mobile telemanipulation and remote participation in the world to enable at-risk individuals to engage in rich and meaningful ways within health and community environments.

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