PICKNIK INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase II: Z5
PICKNIK INC. — SBIR Phase II award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where National Aeronautics and Space Administration funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $939,869 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Tagged technology areas: Autonomy & Robotics, Artificial Intelligence/ML. Follow those hubs for open topics and peer winners in the same cluster.
- Topic code Z5 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
Summary
PickNik Inc. won a $940k NASA Phase II SBIR award to build an affordance-driven perception system that keeps a human in the decision loop. The framework helps robots better understand possible actions in their environment with human guidance.
- Amount
- $939,869
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- Z5
- Solicitation
- SBIR_22_P2
- NAICS
- 541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2023-08-01 → 2026-01-31
Technology domains
Description
E0104042 - FY23 - SBIR PHASE II - AN AFFORDANCE DRIVEN, HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP PERCEPTION FRAMEWORK