GRASP Laboratory @GRASPlab
Founded in 1979, the GRASP Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research center, and premiere robotics incubator within Penn Engineering. grasp.upenn.edu Joined September 2009-
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Thanks to Meredith Silberstein of @CornellMAE for kicking off our Fall Seminar Series with her talk on how Cornell's Engineered Living Materials Institute is harnessing biology as structural materials for the built environment.
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Join us TOMORROW for the Fall 2025 GRASP Research Overview Day 1 Presentations! The Presentations will be between 10:30am - 11:45am! For more info, visit: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-20… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearch #GRASPOverview
Welcome to all new and returning students! We hope everyone had a great start to their semester and a great time at the GRASP Lab's Welcome Back BBQ!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPBBQ #WelcomeBack
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At New Student Orientation, Penn Engineering welcomed its newest students. Full auditoriums of undergraduates, graduate and doctoral students received an introduction from Dean Vijay Kumar and faculty leadership. Here's to an inspiring year of discovery and new connections!…
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Welcome back, Penn Engineers. The campus is buzzing with energy, and Dean Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean, extends a warm welcome to new and returning students, faculty and staff. The Dean's message celebrates the community's strength and highlights how new facilities like…
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How can robots recover from sandy traps on the Moon? The TRUSSES Project, led by Cynthia Sung, unites @PennEngineers & @USC researchers. At White Sands National Park, TRUSSES joined LASSIE to test multirobot systems that map hazards & climb dunes in a simulated lunar environment.
If you haven't checked out or Spring 2025 GRASP Seminars yet, here is a link to the playlist! youtube.com/playlist?list=… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars #Youtube
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A new solar-driven water harvesting device, inspired by raspberries and sunflowers, collects moisture from the air. Developed by @ShuYangPenn (@CBE_Penn & @MSEatPenn), the new material is 4.4 times faster than conventional systems, offering a promising solution for water…
If you haven't seen the GRASP Lab's latest seminar, please watch this seminar featuring Dr. Michal Gregor as he presents “Low-Resource NLP: Not Just Throwing Data at a Model and Hoping for the Best” youtube.com/watch?v=o2QMh8… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar
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Congratulations Jake Welde who defended his dissertation, “Geometric Methods for Efficient and Explainable Control of Underactuated Robotic Systems." His research uses geometric structure to design faster, more general, and more robust robot controllers—both analytic and learned.
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Dean @vijay_r_kumar recently spoke with Ben Kaplan of Deep Venture Partners about the future of robotics. The two explore how AI is reshaping the future of robots, why aerial drones still struggle, what swarm intelligence can teach us and the real-world impact of robots in…
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Samantha McBride and Nathan Wei have been named Environmental Innovations Initiative Faculty Fellows, a two-year collaboration with a focus on lithium recovery from waste brines and investigating extreme heat's impact on urban communities. 🌎 blog.me.upenn.edu/mcbride-and-we…
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Penn Engineering congratulates Serpent Robotics on winning the 8th Annual Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Competition. Serpent Robotics, an @NSF I-Corps graduate, developed a robot that climbs trees and performs cuts too dangerous for human arborists. The core technology comes…
We would like to extend a BIG Thank you to @BerkshireGrey for sharing their robots with us! We are excited to start new projects and utilize our new bots in our Robotics Master's Program courses and GRASP research! #GRASP #GRASPLab #BerkshireGrey #Robotics
GRASP Lab researchers shared some recent work at the International Foundation of Robotics Research's 19th International Symposium! Check out our program below! grasp.upenn.edu/news/the-grasp… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatISER #ISER2025
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In June, Penn Engineering hosted the Xplorlabs Educator Fellowship Summit. Teachers explored safety science via workshops on sprinklers, burn scenes & Li-ion fires and heard talks by Chris Callison-Burch & @robertghrist.
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