The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Sciences Office has issued a request for proposal for research concepts on biohybrid robotics.
HyBRIDS ACT Opportunity
According to the notice posted on SAM.gov Friday, DARPA DSO is planning to award an Advanced Research Concepts, or ARC, Opportunity to support the Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems, or HyBRIDS, initiative.
Under the ARC Opportunity, vendors will have a maximum period of performance of one year. Each organization selected for the ARC award will receive $100,000 to $300,000 in funding. Interested parties have until April 7 to send in their proposals.
Biohybrid Robots
Current robotic platforms pose challenges in terms of real-world operations and applications. Biohybrid robots, composed of biological and synthetic elements, are being developed to address this issue. With the recent progress in engineering and biology, biohybrid systems are being designed to have the controllability and precision of fully engineered abiotic systems and the adaptability, efficiency, resiliency and sensitivity of biological systems.
However, current biohybrid robots have yet to be fully integrated with these qualities. The HyBRIDS ARC opportunity intends to bridge the gap in existing robotics by encouraging interested parties to develop robotic systems with enhanced capabilities.
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