Collaborative Research: CCRI: Grand: Quori 2.0: Uniting, Broadening, and Sustaining a Research Community Around a Modular Social Robot Platform

Quori 2.0：围绕模块化社交机器人平台联合、拓宽和维持研究社区机器人研究的一个重要挑战是缺乏通用的机器人平台。研究人员使用不同形状、大小、传感器和能力的机器人。这使得很难比较结果。为了应对这一挑战，该项目将建造50个人形机器人（称为“Quori”）。美国各地选定的研究团队将获得其中一个机器人和用于构建共享基础设施的共享软件。这将创建一个标准化的社区机器人基础设施。使用Quori机器人的研究人员将通过在线协作工具进行联系。他们还将参加研究人员的活动和培训，以便共同工作。这将创造一个机器人专家社区，他们可以相互学习和分享想法。预期的结果是美国机器人研究的快速发展。该项目将包括来自不同机构的机器人研究人员的新团队。Quori经验丰富的研究人员将指导新团队成员。目标是发展和多样化机器人和STEM研究。该项目将加快机器人技术和人机交互（HRI）研究的步伐，其目标是为HRI研究创建一个通用的硬件/软件平台。另一个目标是围绕这个平台建立一个研究人员社区。这种方法的灵感来自于之前使用另一个机器人平台和现在非常流行的机器人操作系统（ROS）的类似研究。该项目使用了从10个Quori原型机器人的开发中吸取的经验教训。一小部分美国研究团队收到了这10个Quori机器人进行使用和测试。这项工作的目的之一是通过增强软件驱动程序来改进机器人的设计。第二个目标是改进机器人的感知、表达和移动算法。这些变化将使大规模生产Quori机器人变得更加容易。第三个目标是发展机器人研究界。该项目将使用广泛的选择标准来分配机器人。这包括大学类型、地点和研究人员特征（例如，职业生涯阶段，角色）。被选中的研究团队将接受入职和培训。他们将加入社区通信工具。将提供资源，用于使用Quori机器人开展可重复研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Quori 2.0: Uniting, Broadening, and Sustaining a Research Community Around a Modular Social Robot PlatformOne important challenge for robotics research is the lack of a common robotics platform. Researchers use robots with different shapes, sizes, sensors, and capabilities. This makes it hard to compare results. To address this challenge, this project will build fifty humanoid robots (called "Quori"). Selected research teams across the United States will receive one of these robots and shared software for building a shared infrastructure. This will create a standardized community robotics infrastructure. The researchers who use the Quori robots will connect through online collaboration tools. They will also attend events and trainings for researchers to work together. This will create a community of roboticists who can learn from each other and share ideas. The expected result is the rapid advancement of U.S. robotics research. The project will include new teams of robotics researchers from diverse institutions. Researchers experienced with Quori will mentor the new team members selected. The goal is to grow and diversify robotics and STEM research. This project will speed up the pace of research in robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).A goal of this project is to create a common hardware/software platform for HRI research. Another goal is to build a community of researchers around this platform. This approach was inspired by similar prior research using another robotic platform and the now very popular Robot Operating System (ROS). This project uses lessons learned from the development of ten Quori prototype robots. A small selection of U.S. research teams received these ten Quori robots to use and test. One aim of this work is to improve the design of the robot by enhancing the software drivers. A second aim is to improve the robot's perception, expression, and mobility algorithms. These changes will make it easier to manufacture Quori robots at scale. A third aim is to grow the robotics research community. The project will use a wide range of selection criteria to distribute the robots. This includes university types, locations, and researcher characteristics (e.g., career stage, roles). The selected research teams will receive onboarding and training. They will join community communication tools. There will be resources provided for developing reproducible studies using the Quori robots. A community governance and engagement structure will support the sustainability of the project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.