BU-led research team wins competitive $7.5 million MURI grant to create neuro-autonomous robots

A Boston University-led research team was selected to receive a $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). With this prestigious grant, the researchers will develop a novel category of neuro-inspired autonomous robots for land, sea, and air that the investigators have termed “neuro-autonomous.”

The initiative will tackle the challenge of how to make robots truly autonomous as well as provide important insights into the process of learning and memory formation. The project will be led by Yannis Paschalidis, director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, and professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University.

Project Investigators

• Yannis Paschalidis (BU, CSN)
• John Baillieul (BU, CSN)
• Margrit Betke (BU, CSN)
• Michael Hasselmo (BU, Director of CSN)
• John Leonard (MIT)
• Nicholas Roy (MIT)
• Chantal Stern (BU, Executive Committee CSN)
• Roberto Tron (BU)