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Adam Jacoff in the NIST Robot Test Facility in the obstacle course with a robot

Search and Rescue Robotics: A Q&A With NIST's Adam Jacoff

April 28, 2021
Adam Jacoff has been a robotics research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1988. His research has focused on developing a variety of new robotic capabilities and designing comprehensive suites of tests to foster innovation throughout the robotics community
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Flying Drones Compete to Complete Unprecedented Feat

August 1, 2018
Richard Wilkinson
Whether it’s the effort to redefine the kilogram or researching the Harry Potter realm of quantum mechanics where things can somehow be in two or more places at one time, quite a bit of the science carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can be hard for the average