NKP – Intelligent robots (2019 annual call)

Total budget to be allocated

Around 400 million RMB

Total projects to be funded

33

Specific subjects and topics

Basic frontier technologies

1. High-performance bionic foot robots
2. Innovative designs for robot bionic climbing
3. Field-controlled micro-nano robots for targeted drug delivery

Generic technologies

1. Practical multi-finger dexterity for services and industry
2. Robot joints integrating mechanism/drive/perception/control
3. Chips, and software and hardware modules for robot environment modeling and navigation positioning
4. Key technologies for high-precision online calibration of industrial robots
5. Robots’ safety control technologies based on visual and electronic skin
6. Technologies for target detection and obstacle-avoidance control for underwater robots

Key technologies and equipment

1. Long-span bridge inspection robot
2. Underwater detection robot systems for large-diameter long diversion tunnels
3. Airport runway safety inspection robot
4. Tank inspection robots for the National Petroleum Strategic Reserve Bank
5. Robot system for the emergency-handling of accidents involving nuclear devices
6. Microdevice robot inspection assembly systems
7. Highly-efficient and precise robotic segmentation systems for livestock and poultry meat
8. Robot systems for the repair and griding of engines’ high-temperature alloy components
9. Robots for detection and removal operations in complex narrow cabin structures
10. Short-range radiotherapy minimally-invasive robot systems
11. Rehabilitation robots for balance disorder patients
12. Integrated surgical robot systems for the digestive tract, based on real-time microscopic imaging
13. Femtosecond laser minimally invasive surgery robot systems
14. Multi-device coordinated cardiovascular stent implantation robots
15. Cochlear implant minimally invasive robot systems
16. Human-computer collaborative craniotomy robot systems

Application/demonstration

1. Application demonstration of collaborative robot systems
2. Application demonstration of large scene autonomous cleaning robots
3. Explosion-proof working robots for dangerous environments such as petrochemical deflagration
4. Application demonstration of domestically-produced robot core components
5. Intelligent collaborative operation systems for large-scale agricultural robots
6. Active motion colonoscopy robots
7. Spinal cord injury rehabilitation robots
8. Systems for the education and training of domestically-produced industrial robots

Requirements

General requirements applying to all NKPs (see corresponding section in this page).

Additional requirements for this specific NKP include:

1. Industry-university-research cooperation strongly encouraged
2. Proposals featuring the participation of local governments and social actors strongly encouraged (additional funding must be provided according to certain proportions, depending on the project subject);
3. Project implementation period is 3 years;
4. The maximum number of participants in each consortium cannot exceed 5 or 10 (depending on the specific subject), while the maximum number of subtopics for each project should not exceed 4 or 6 (depending on the specific subject).

Date of publication

21 June 2020

Application deadline

9 August 2020

Useful links

Original call (in Chinese, copy-paste in browser)

Previous call for comments (November 2018)

More detailed factsheet on National Key R&D Programmes