{"id":1760,"date":"2021-09-23T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:34:17","slug":"dr-simmons-received-an-nsf-award-to-conduct-research-on-partnering-workers-with-interactive-robot-assistant-to-usher-transformation-in-future-construction-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/2021\/09\/dr-simmons-received-an-nsf-award-to-conduct-research-on-partnering-workers-with-interactive-robot-assistant-to-usher-transformation-in-future-construction-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Simmons received an NSF award to conduct research on interactive robot assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Dr. Simmons received an NSF award to conduct research on \u201cPartnering workers with interactive robot assistant to usher transformation in future construction work.\u201d We are excited to collaborate on this $2 million research project led by researchers at the University of Michigan to equip construction workers with new skills.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more information via the following links:<\/p>\n<p>The NSF project summary page for SRL&#8217;s portion of the award.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2128415&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2128415&amp;HistoricalAwards=false<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Robot assistants\u2019 may help reinvent construction industry:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/robot-assistants-may-help-reinvent-construction-industry\/\">https:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/robot-assistants-may-help-reinvent-construction-industry\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Simmons received an NSF award to conduct research on \u201cPartnering workers with interactive robot assistant to usher transformation in future construction work.\u201d We are excited to collaborate on this $2 million research project led by researchers at the University of Michigan to equip construction workers with new skills. Check out more information via the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/simmons-research-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}