Active Solicitation · DEPT OF DEFENSE
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information on innovative materials and technologies for enhancing physical intelligence in untethered autonomous robotics. This RFI focuses on concepts that improve energy efficiency, speed, and decision-making capabilities in environments with limited communication. Interested parties should provide insights into disruptive advancements at the material and component levels.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) seeks information on physical intelligence applied to untethered autonomous robotic technologies with dynamic and low-latency adaptive functionality in unconstrained environments. The DoW typically operates in environments with limited communication or human intervention, where autonomy coupled with rapid maneuverability and adaptive reflexes dictate mission completion. Robotics possessing physical intelligence—the encoding of sensing, actuation, control, learning, adaptation, and decision-making directly into the body—offers a promising path towards advancing the DoW’s mission. Progress in today’s autonomous robotics focuses on two paths, increasing sensor density and increasing data transfer volume, to enhance artificial decision-making. Both paths come at the cost of reduced energy efficiency, speed, and information security, for which current progress occurs orthogonal to the DoW mission. DARPA is interested in disruptive concepts at the material, component, and kernel level that represent significant advances beyond current practice for fielding robust robotics.
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: MATERIALS FOR PHYSICAL COMPUTE IN UNTETHERED ROBOTICS is a federal acquisition solicitation issued by DEPT OF DEFENSE. Review the full description, attachments, and submission requirements on SamSearch before the response deadline.
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