date:Nov 10, 2023
The National Science Foundation has awarded Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel a $2 million grant to adapt autonomous robots to be as resilient as fruit flies. Resiliency in autonomous robotic systems is crucial, especially for robotics systems that are used in disaster response and surveillance. Unfortunately, modern robots have difficulty responding to new environments or damage to their bodies that might occur during disaster response, van Breugel wrote in his grant