Narrated by Phil Ross | Reported by Lisa Raffensperger
NSF's Role
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos serves as director of the Center for Distributed Robotics
and SECTTRA and professor in computer science and engineering
at the University of Minnesota. See how NSF has supported his research. Image credit: Nikos Papanikolopoulos, UMN
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