Marion Anderson, a graduate student in the BIRDS Lab, was awarded a U-M Space Institute Power Grant in the amount of $4,235, for his project “Development of an Open-Source, Low-Cost Gravity Compensation System for Legged Robots Using Rapid-Fabrication Techniques” in July 2024.
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Xiaonan Huang, Assistant Professor at Michigan Robotics, was awarded a U-M Space Institute Pathfinder Grant in the amount of $5,000, for his project “Developing a Soft Vine Robot for Comet Surface and Subsurface Exploration” in July 2024.
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Ananyo Bhattacharya, graduate student at U-M Climate and Space, was awarded a U-M Space Institute Power Grant in the amount of $1,400, for his project “PlanetGPT- A U-M GenAI Tool for Space Sciences and Engineering” in December 2023.