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Title:

Building Artificial Intelligence (AI) Control Systems for General Purpose Robots

Agreement Number:

Agreement Value:

$2,000,000.00

Agreement Date:

Oct 28, 2024 - Dec 30, 2025

Description:

Funding will support advancements in mobility, manipulation, sensing, localization of threats, advanced modeling, information synthesis, or by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, supervised autonomy, techniques to reduce the operator involvement in the task.

Organization:

National Defence

Expected Results:

There are two desired outcomes for this challenge:
Innovators are expected to showcase technological advancements in both discretized and multi-level challenges to accomplish the tasks in the on-site challenge. These methods of control in this category could be more aligned to traditional systems where an operator is fully involved in the outcome of the challenge and demonstrated in the video submission.
In the second category, the focus will be on how little the operator is involved in the challenge. Special considerations for time, precision, and level of success will be provided for systems that have little to no involvement from external sources. Additional considerations could also be provided for how much information has to be preloaded or configured for an individual challenge.

Location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V5Y 1L3

Reference Number:

018-2024-2025-Q3-RRU-013

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

For-profit organization

Recipient's Legal Name:

Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation

Program:

Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Contest

Program Purpose:

Collaborate with academic and private sector partners to build a network of expertise to support Canada’s current and future defence and security needs.