Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity

Thrust 1: Hands

• • T1.Muscles.2025.1: High-Throughput Fabrication of Electrostatically Actuated Multifunctional Artificial Muscle Fibers
  • T1.SkinSensing.2025.2: High-Density Multi-Modal Tactile Sensing for HAND System Integration
  • T1.TextileSensing.2025.3: Textile Electro-Mechanical Systems for Device Fabrication (TEMS) 
  • T1.DurableSkin.2025.4: Robotic Hand Skin and Tissue for Durability and Friction Control: Tests, Models, and Materials

Thrust 2: Intelligent Dexterity

• • T2.Taxonomy.2025.1: Grasp-Affordance Taxonomy and Levels of Dexterity Benchmarks
  • T2.DefiningSkills.2025.2: Defining Dexterous Skills
  • T2.DexSim.2025.3: DexNex Drake Sim
  • T2.DiffusionPolicy.2025.4: DexNex Diffusion Policies
  • T2.SoftHandControl.2025.5: Self-Supervised Learning of Soft Robot Hand Models and Control
  • T2.RuntimeLearning.2025.6: Soft Hand Dexterity Learning

Thrust 3: Human Interface

• • T3.HapticCues.2025.1: Essential Haptic Cues for Dexterous Tasks
  • T3.CVT.2025.2: Miniaturized CVT-Enabled Haptic Glove for High-Fidelity Dexterous Manipulation
  • T3.MultimodalInterface.2025.3: Mapping Dexterous Action to Interface Elements 
  • T3.Inference.2025.4: Inference-Time Diffusion Policy Refinement through Human Interactions
    
  • T3.Atlas.2025.5: Robot Atlas

System Integration and Testbeds

• • SIT.BonesJoints.2025.1: Bones, Joints, and Tendons
  • SIT.HumanInterface.2025.2: Human Interface

Outreach and Engagement

• • OE.Outreach.2025.1: Outreach and Recruitment
  • OE.Engagement.2025.2: Mentoring and Engagement

Engineering Workforce Development

• • EWD.DtD.2025.1: Defining the Discipline and Curriculum Development (UG/Grad)
  • EWD.Curriculum.2025.2: Accessible Pathways: Curriculum
  • EWD.DexKit.2025.3: Accessible Pathways: DexKit
  • EWD.RET.2025.4: Accessible Pathways: RET
  • EWD.REU.2025.5: Accessible Pathways: REU

Innovation Ecosystem

• • IE.DPI.2025.1: Dexterity in the Public Interest