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, […]
Dr. Santos was awarded $150k as part of a one-year grant to United Technologies Research Center from the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute. The project is titled, “Precise Packing with Intelligence.” This award enables collaboration with research teams at United Technologies Research Center and RE2 Robotics. The goal […]
Dr. Santos was awarded $525k, as part of a $3M, three-year grant to RE2 Robotics from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research. The project is titled, “STARFISH: Strong Tactile mARitime hand for Feeling, Inspecting, Sensing, and Handling.” This award enables collaboration with the research teams […]
Dr. Santos was awarded a $1.6M, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research titled, “Robot grasp and manipulation of deformable linear objects with applications for cable following: Haptic perception.” This award enables collaboration with the research teams of Prof. Julie Shah and Prof. […]
Dr. Santos was awarded a $1.4M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research titled, “Field deployable, bimanual mobile manipulator system for research on haptics-enabled dexterous manipulation.” The grant complements a five-year, $1.6M research grant awarded in June 2016, also from the Office of Naval […]
Dr. Santos was awarded a $1.6M, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research titled, “Haptic search and retrieval of objects buried within granular media.” The goal is to develop haptics-enabled capabilities for teleoperated mobile manipulation robots that support human-in-the-loop missions.
Congratulations to Kenneth Gutierrez and Eric Chang for their National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Awards! NSF received over 16,000 applications for the 2015 competition, and made only 2,000 fellowship award offers. Kenneth and Eric were in that elite top 12.5%!
Dr. Veronica J. Santos has been selected for an Arizona State University Young Investigator Award, as part of the 2014 ASU Faculty Excellence Awards. The awards are made for a specific contribution appearing in the last ten years that meets the highest standards of the discipline/profession. All nominations […]
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