The Demand Signal: Robotics

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Agile Autonomous Technical Data Package to Path Robotic Task Specification

Department of War · Air Force · SBIR Topic · 27.BZ

posted 7 October 2026 · closes 25 November 2026

Summary

The Department of the Air Force is seeking proposals to develop an automated software platform that ingests technical data packages and autonomously generates collision‑free robotic inspection trajectories for mobile manipulators. The effort aims to dramatically reduce quality‑control programming time and enable rapid reconfiguration of robotic inspection in agile aerospace manufacturing environments.

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