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Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram is the recipient of a $650,000 CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The funding will help Jayaram make advancements in robots by drawing from what might seem to be an unlikely source: insects and other small creatures.

Assistant Professor Chahat Singh is pioneering advancements in bio-inspired robotics and resource-constrained AI. His work focuses on developing small, autonomous drones capable of solving global challenges, such as pollinating crops and navigating wildfire zones.

Sean Humbert, professor in mechanical engineering and director of the Robotics graduate program, chats with CBS News ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® about some of the technology him and his students are working on at ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder. One of their builds is a robot that the Boulder County Sheriff's Office uses to support their bomb squad team.