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Senate hears proposal for $20 million to expand NDSU Research and Technology Park into robotics hub
Summary
Senators heard testimony on Senate Bill 2256, which would provide a one-time $20 million appropriation to the NDSU Research and Technology Park to support a planned center for advanced robotics, a proposed partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics center, and expanded commercialization work under Industrial Commission oversight.
Senators on the Workforce Development Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2256 on a proposal to provide a one-time $20,000,000 appropriation to the NDSU Research and Technology Park to build a center focused on advanced robotics, precision agriculture and dual-use defense technologies.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ron Sarvaj, told the committee the appropriation is written as a continuing appropriation in statute language but is intended as a one-time $20 million payment that would end June 30, 2027. Sarvaj said the park is a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses the NDSU name because the university owns land used by the park and that the proposal is intended to expand the park’s mission toward engineering, prototyping and product development for industry.
The park’s chief…
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