Slide title: National Robotics Initiative (NRI)

Slide words:
A concerted program to provide U.S. leadership in science and engineering research and education aimed at the development of next generation robotics
FY 2012 request: $30 million

Slide images: Photo of children playing "Simon Says" with Jaemi, a humanoid robot (HUBO) (top); photo of CYCLOPS, a remote-controlled robot developed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), that can simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina (bottom)

Image credits: Lisa-Joy Zgorski, National Science Foundation (top); Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell (bottom)

Bottom banner images (left to right): Image of an F4 Phantom fighter jet created with a 3D telepresence system; photo of scientists deploying an apparatus for taking sonar measurements from the seafloor; artist's conception showing the newly discovered planet GJ 581g of the Gliese 581 system; artist's conception of a molecular robot; photo of a fifth-grade student; sketch of RNA molecules

Bottom banner images credits (left to right): University of Arizona; Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Lynette Cook; Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Dr. Jennifer Henke, Princeton University