STARTING SOON
Please welcome Dr. Nikolay Atanasov who will be presenting “Elements of Generalizable Robot Autonomy” from 10:30AM - 11:45AM TODAY!!!
For More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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We hope the students from Kingsway Regional HS FIRST Robotics Team had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A HUGE Thank You to our wonderful researchers taking time out of their schedules to showcase their recent work to the aspiring team!
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Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Ruta Desai who will be presenting “Towards AI Partners: Socially Intelligent Agents that Augment Human Abilities” from 3PM-4PM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Daniel Lee who will be presenting “AI White Boxes and Neural Representation Geometry” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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We hope the students from Marian Anderson NSBE junior chapter had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A BIG Thank You to the GRASP volunteers who took time out of their schedules to share their research to these aspiring students!
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Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Ph.D. candidate, Stone Tao, who will be presenting “Accelerating and Driving Robotics Progress with Simulation Integrated Robot Learning” from 3PM-4PM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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We at the GRASP Lab were proud to showcase our work at the Philly AI X Robotics workshop!
The event was hosted by Penn Engineering and catalyzed by Elaine Cheong.
Thank you to Sylvia Zhang @PennEngAI for the photos!
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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. David Held who will be presenting “Precise and Generalizable Robot Manipulation” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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The GRASP SFI Seminar featuring Junyao Shi has unfortunately been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date.
Please look out for our announcements of the new date!
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Prof. René Vidal’s group at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory explored this problem in their recent publication titled “SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations”...
Read more:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/simple-...
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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. George Konidaris who will be presenting “Unifying the Stack: A Principled Structuralist Approach to Intelligent Robot Control” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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If you missed it, have no fear! Dancing Through Life by Erin Rose Boyle, co-led by GRASP's Sung Robotics Lab, is still going until Feb 20th from 12pm-6pm! The exhibit is free and open to the public!
For more info:
www.theartsleague.org/events-and-u...
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Chris Paxton as he presents “How Close Are We To Generalist Humanoid Robots?” from 3pm-4pm.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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We hope everyone from Abington Friends and Frankford Friends school had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A HUGE Thank You to our GRASP volunteers who took time out to showcase their work to the wonderful attendees!
More to come in the future!!!
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STARTING SOON! GRASP on Robotics featuring Dr. Roni Sengupta who will be presenting "From Pixels to Physics: Understanding and Manipulating Physics from Images" from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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Check out this article featuring GRASP's own Dr. Marc Miskin.
"...the smallest robots with fully integrated systems for sensing, programmable computation, and motion control sit at or above a millimeter.."
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Jiafei Duan who will be presenting "Building Robotics Foundation Models with Reasoning in the Loop" from 3PM-4PM.
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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GRASP SFI returns for the Spring semester!
If you missed it, you can find the video here:
Dr. Wei-Hsi Chen, University of Pennsylvania, “Toward Task-informed Robot Codesign”
youtu.be/7KVT44xAiis
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GRASP on Robotics seminars are back for the Spring semester! Dr. Wojciech Matusik will be presenting "Can Computers Beat Humans at Design?" from 10:30AM - 11:45AM TOMORROW!
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...
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Welcome back to the Spring Semester!!!
GRASP Seminars will start back up next week! Check out the GRASP calendar for our future seminars and events below!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/
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One of the many projects Dr. Michelle Johnson's lab, Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, is working on is Haptic TheraDrive is a therapy designed to help low-functioning patients using movement-based games as exercises.
More info:
www.med.upenn.edu/rehabilitati...
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Check out what the GRASP faculty were up to in 2025 with this breakdown article from Penn Today!!!
shorturl.at/bZYE3
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The GRASP Lab wishes you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!
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Congratulations to GRASP Faculty Member Dr. Nadia Figueroa on receiving the NSF Career Award! “We want robots to be truly useful, physically intelligent machines that understand us, adapt to us and keep us safe ..."
Full Article:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/2025-ca...
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Did you miss the student finals competition streams for MEAM 510 and 520 this past weekend? No worries! We have them recorded! Watch students showcase their work in a competition format!
MEAM 510 Day 1:
shorturl.at/Xfguz
MEAM 510 Day 2:
shorturl.at/XRpH6
MEAM 520:
shorturl.at/r5w8s
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Robotics Master Student, Sam Wang, who is working with Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman's PAL(Perception, Action, and Learning) Research Group showcasing a 4 legged robot balancing on an exercise ball.
PAL Research Group Website:
www.seas.upenn.edu/~dineshj/pen...
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GRASP Faculty Dr. Antonio Loquercio's new course, Physical Intelligence, spent the semester training drones to race using reinforcement learning.
The class finals concluded with a 13 team drone race!
Congratulations to the winners: Wenjing Mao and Yufeiyang Gao!
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With the Semester wrapping up, the GRASP Lab seminars will being again in the Spring Semester. Fret not! Fall Seminars were uploaded to the GRASP Lab Youtube channel!
Links below!
GRASP on Robotics:
shorturl.at/PEof1
GRASP SFI:
shorturl.at/PpiGH
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Minghan Zhu who will be presenting “3D Robot Vision for Structured World Understanding” from 3PM-4PM!
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
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We hope everyone had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab and getting to see the research that happens here!!
HUGE Thank you to our amazing researchers that took the time out of their busy schedules to showcase their work!
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