$3M NSF Grant Awarded to Rutgers for the Development of Robots of the Future

Kristin Dana (RuCCS EC member, ECE Professor) is the PI for the proposal awarded the grant Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society (SOCRATES). The SOCRATES grant proposal was completed by Dana alongside her team of co-PIs, senior personnel, and an external evaluator:
- Kostas Bekris (Computer Science/RuCCS EC, co-PI)
- Clinton Andrews (Planning and Public Policy, co-PI)
- Jacob Feldman (Psychology/RuCCS EC, Cognitive Science, co-PI)
- Jingang Yi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, co-PI)
- Pernille Hemmer (Psychology/RuCCS EC, Cognitive Science, senior personnel)
- Aaron Mazzeo (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, senior personnel)
- Hal Salzman (Planning and Public Policy, senior personnel)
- Matthew Stone (Computer Science/RuCCS EC, senior personnel)
- Kathy Haynie (External evaluator on STEM education)
The objective of the grant is to create a new vehicle for graduate training and research that integrates technology domains of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision with social and behavioral sciences including psychology, cognitive science, and urban policy planning.

Read the article on Rutgers Today for more on the story. For more info on the NSF grant read here.