National Science Foundation fiscal year awards for (FY) 2009 are $9.5 billion, which includes $3.0 billion provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Included were 663 awards totaling $443,449,185 for robotic-related research and applications development.
Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.
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