Federal opportunity · Solicitation
NSF X-Labs Initiative – AI for Physical Systems Topic Announcement
NSF-Topic3-FY26-XLabsPhysicalAI · National Science Foundation · SAM.gov
! Responses due Jan 7, 2027, 5:00 PM ET · 62 days left
- Responses due
- Jan 7, 2027, 5:00 PM ET
- Posted
- Sep 16, 2026
- NAICS code
- 541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Set-aside
- None
- Place of performance
- Alexandria, VA
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation number
- NSF-Topic3-FY26-XLabsPhysicalAI
- Official notice
- View on SAM.gov →
What the agency is buying
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), is soliciting Written Proposals under the NSF X-Labs Initiative for the AI for Physical Systems Topic. NSF seeks innovative, early stage platform technologies that advance intelligent, adaptive, and scalable AI systems operating in or interfacing with the physical world, including robotics, embodied systems, human robot interfaces, advanced sensing, and cyber physical systems. NSF anticipates making one or more Other Transaction (OT) awards under 42 U.S.C. § 19116.
From the official notice on SAM.gov.
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