Browse 770 real Robotics and Intelligent Machines projects from past science fairs, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The $191.3 billion U.S. infrastructure repair backlog and unreliability of traditional manual visual inspections, which miss up to 94% of cracks, demonstrates the urgent need for improved in…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coral reefs around the Qatari peninsula are increasingly threatened by rising sea temperatures, pollution, and desalination brine discharge. This project proposes an AI-driven system for rea…
ISEF · 2026
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Approximately 2.1 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, with about 36% experiencing depression. Conventional non-invasive prosthetic control relies on electromyography (EMG), which…
ISEF · 2026
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Due to the need for unsafe or costly data collection to train a policy in the real world, sim-to-real transfer is the most common approach: learning a policy in simulation and deploying it i…
ISEF · 2026
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Wetland ecosystems play critical roles in maintaining biodiversity, regulating hydrological processes, and supporting carbon sequestration—functions that align closely with United Nations Su…
ISEF · 2026
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Animatronic Octopus Tentacle Kai McConnell Home school, Eustis, Florida, United States This engineering project, in the realm of soft robotics, has the opportunity to be world changing. This…
ISEF · 2026
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The integration of technological advancements has enabled fit laboratories to address growing workforce shortages, meet rising test demands with quick turnaround times, and reduce operationa…
ISEF · 2026
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Computer vision based artificial intelligence systems are increasingly explored as low-cost solutions to traditional systems in today’s modern age. One such system is the current sensor-base…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Individuals with non-fluent aphasia, such as Broca's aphasia, face profound communication barriers due to impaired verbal expression. Traditional assistive tools often rely on static image d…
ISEF · 2026
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The field of humanoid robotics is currently bottlenecked by a lack of accessibility, high costs, high energy demands, and a lack of ease of manufacturability. This project aimed to create a…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many current robotic control systems use either traditional joysticks or complicated code, which makes it harder for robots to respond quickly and accurately in high-stakes situations like r…
ISEF · 2026
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Organic biomarker analysis has been an essential tool for reconstructing the evolution of Earth’s climate, such as the last ice age. However, accurate reconstruction of Earth’s temperatures…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Microplastics have a devastating effect on global ecosystems, however, conventional monitoring methods are expensive, inefficient, and cumbersome requiring week-long laboratory analyses, whi…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
By 2052, one quarter of the population will be over the age of 65, with adults over 85 the fastest growing segment. Supporting older adults to maintain their independence is a global priorit…
ISEF · 2026
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Wheelchair Paralympic athletes lose 25% of their training time collecting table tennis balls manually, causing fatigue and affecting their autonomy, performance and motivation. This is a glo…
ISEF · 2026
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Three in every ten people experience a gait injury in their lifetime, and two in ten people experience poverty. A lack of financial stability can cause insufficient treatment and potential w…
ISEF · 2026
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Clutch is a hybrid electrostatic dry adhesive climbing robot, and is a culmination of a research and development project. For the past few decades, researchers have been trying to replicate…
ISEF · 2026
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Autonomous drone fleets have immense potential in medical supply delivery during disaster incident response. However, coordinating multiple drones in such settings introduces compounding cha…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hyperspectral imaging enables simultaneous acquisition of spatial and spectral information and has become indispensable in applications including material characterization, environmental eng…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
My science fair project works towards creating a hardware and software platform for automated AI-assisted fire suppression. Through a combination of an AI model, self-generated training data…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Individuals with early-stage dementia often experience confusion or distress when interacting with standard conversational AI, which may challenge memory, argue, or reinforce inaccuracies. T…
ISEF · 2026
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Kidney stones are solid mineral deposits that cause severe pain or harm to the urinary tract if not diagnosed and treated early. However, medical machine learning models require large labele…
ISEF · 2026
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3D point clouds are fundamental to robot perception and 3D reconstruction. However, due to interference, they often contain outliers which distort surface geometry and degrade the performanc…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hundreds of U.S. workers are killed annually performing inspections in confined spaces, industrial facilities, and critical infrastructure, with thousands more suffering severe injuries (Bur…
ISEF · 2026
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Path planning, or determining an optimal and collision-free route from a start point to a goal, is one of the most challenging problems in autonomous mobile robotics. Classical A* is a found…
ISEF · 2026
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Autonomous robotic systems and the vision-language models powering them share a critical failure: both produce actions through opaque latent embeddings with no causal justification, thereby…
ISEF · 2026
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Autonomous drone navigation in GNSS-denied environments is challenging because conventional systems rely on rigid spatial representations, require environment-specific training, or are too c…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Waste affects nature because it often accumulates in inaccessible spots like lakes, crevasses and slopes. In the mountains tourists can bring in and wind scatter wastes like plastic, paper,…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Mishandling objects in medical and industrial fields is a leading cause of preventable errors. Current robotic grippers rely on static force control, failing to adapt to various distinct obj…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Nutritious mushrooms can be grown in an efficient and accessible manner by engineering and automating their ideal growing environment. Mushrooms can be a healthy and reliable food source, wh…