2014$200,000 “Autonomous Food Production”, NASA Early Career Fellowship (year 3/3) from NASA. $264,634 “Assistive wearable technology for the deaf based on a modular networking architecture supporting high-bandwidth sensing and distributed control” from DARPA. $49,945 “Exploring a Uniform Modeling Framework for Material-centric, Morphological Computation” from the Army Research Office. $8000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to “CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming behaviors” (1 year) from the NSF. $68,000 “Improving Habitability, Mood & Diet through Bioregenerative Food Systems” from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Heather Hava (year 3/4). $68,000 “Self-Assembly of Structures in Space” (year 4/4) from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Erik Komendera.
2013$200,000 “Autonomous Food Production”, NASA Early Career Fellowship (year 2/3) from NASA. $68,000 “Improving Habitability, Mood & Diet through Bioregenerative Food Systems” from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Heather Hava (year 2/4). $68,000 “Self-Assembly of Structures in Space” (year 3/4) from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Erik Komendera. $11,000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to “NRI-Large: Collaborative Research: Soft Compliant Robotic Augmentation for Human-Robot Teams” (1 year) from the NSF. 2012$200,000 “Autonomous Food Production”, NASA Early Career Fellowship (year 1/3) from NASA. $230,211 “NRI-Large: Collaborative Research: Soft Compliant Robotic Augmentation for Human-Robot Teams“, PI: Daniela Rus, MIT, Co-PIs: Nikolaus Correll, CU Boulder, Robert Wood, Harvard University, from NSF. $23,935 “Career-Life Balance” supplement to NSF CAREER. $12,000 “Single-DOF STEM Arm” sub-contract with Altius Space Machines from DARPA, Phoenix Program. $66,000 “Improving Habitability, Mood & Diet through Bioregenerative Food Systems” from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Heather Hava. $66,000 “Self-Assembly of Structures in Space” (year 2/4) from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Erik Komendera. $8,000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to “CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming behaviors” (1 year) from the NSF. $120,000 “EAGER: Centralized Control of Large-Scale Distributed Sensor/Actuator Networks: Self-organizing Amorphous Facades” from NSF. $360,000 “Self-Assembly and Self-Repair of Structures with Stability and Resource Constraints” (3 year grant) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $501,710 “CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors” (5 year grant) from the National Science Foundation. |
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2011$129,156 “Guided Self-Assembly of Computational Robotic Materials” (year 2/2) with Dustin Reishus, sub-recipient of an NSF grant awarded to the Computing Research Association. $66,000 “Self-Assembly of Structures in Space” (year 1/4) from NASA. NSTRF fellowship awarded to Erik Komendera. $3,328 “Mobile robot Competition Platform for Supporting Teaching and Outreach” from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($1370 matching funds from the Department of Computer Science). $1,065 “Hardware for a Workshop on Embedded System Design for First Year students” with Tanya Ennis from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($300 matching funds from the College of Engineering). |
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2010$4,681 “An Antropomorphic Robotic Torso with 3D Perception Capabilities” with Sam Pottinger from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($1000 matching funds from the Engineering Honors Program). $140,000 “Guided Self-Assembly of Computational Robotic Materials” with Dustin Reishus, sub-recipient of an NSF grant awarded to the Computing Research Association. |
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2009$2,300 “Software for Undergraduate Robotics Education” from the Engineering Excellence Fund (50% departmental fund-matching). $2,500 “Robotics Infrastructure for Andrews Hall” from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($500 fund-matching by Andrews Hall). |
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Funding predominantly covers graduate student salary, their tuition, faculty salary beyond the academic year, travel to conferences, and lab materials. The university receives around 50% of the direct cost as overhead to cover buildings and administration. Together, these cost accumulate to a little less than $100k per student and year.