UT Austin Awards $30M NSF Grant for Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation
EliasEskin · x · 2026-08-29
UT Austin has received a $30 million award from the NSF to establish the Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation. Led by Texas researchers, the center aims to advance groundbreaking research on how humans and robots can learn to live and work together. NVIDIA is providing accelerated computing, simulation, and robotics platforms to power the work.
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