Grant Solicitation for Massachusetts Robotic Digital Twin Initiative

The Massachusetts Robotics Digital Twin Initiative aims to enhance access to robotics technology and foster the robotics entrepreneurial ecosystem across the Commonwealth. This funding opportunity, issued by the Innovation Institute's Robotics Department, will provide competitive capital grants for innovative robotic designs and applications. Projects will focus on building both physical robots and their digital twins, ensuring the resulting digital resources are publicly available for use by researchers and entrepreneurs, thus promoting collaboration and technological advancement.

About the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (Mass Tech Collaborative)
Mass Tech Collaborative is an independent public instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered by the Commonwealth to serve as a catalyst for growing its innovation economy. Mass Tech Collaborative brings together leaders from industry, academia, and government to advance technology-focused solutions that lead to economic growth, job creation, and public benefits in Massachusetts.
Grant Solicitation for Massachusetts Robotic Digital Twin Initiative
The Robotics Department at the Innovation Institute is issuing this Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Massachusetts Robotics Digital Twin Initiative, a program which aims to increase access to robotics tools across the Commonwealth and support the robotics entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Innovation Institute will grant capital awards on a competitive basis to enable the creation of a common Digital Twin Library, while also supporting robotic companies building hardware. This NOFO seeks to provide capital grant funding to proposals for innovative robotic designs and applications and will support both the building of the robot and the creation of its digital twin, which will be publicly available for use by other researchers or entrepreneurs.

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