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We would like to extend a BIG Thank you to Berkshire Grey 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!

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We hope the BLI and PSSI outreach groups had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!!
A BIG Thank you to the GRASP researchers for showcasing their research to the aspiring students!

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CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Dr. George Pappas on receiving the 2025 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award!!!
Check out the article below!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/george-...
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GRASP Lab researchers shared some recent work at the International Foundation of Robotics Research's 19th International Symposium!
Check out our program below!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/the-gra...

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We hope the students from Unite-SMP/AEOP had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab at Levine!
A BIG Thank you to our GRASP researchers for taking time out of their busy schedules to present their work to the aspiring students!

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Designing cleaner, greener concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide - GRASP Lab Original Article From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt’s monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material employed […]

"From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt’s monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material employed by Roman engineers"
Read more:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/designi...
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2025 GRASP Robotics Master's Award Round-Up - GRASP Lab Text by Jillian Mallon Caption for featured photo: Outstanding Research Award winner George Gao posed with Dean Vijay Kumar as […]

Read up on the GRASP Lab's latest article on the 2025 GRASP Robotics Master's Award Round-Up!
Article can be found here:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/2025-gr...

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Mark Yim, Director of GRASPLab (left) and Jordan Raney, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (right)

Inspired by nature, Penn Engineers are teaching robots to build like bees. Jordan Raney @meam-penn.bsky.social & Mark Yim @grasplab.bsky.social developed rules for robots to react to their environment as they build, a step towards a new manufacturing paradigm. blog.seas.upenn.edu/no-plan-no-p...

The GRASP Lab Goes to RSS 2025 - GRASP Lab The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is proud to share all of […]

The GRASP Lab is at RSS 2025! Check out this article with some highlights of what we are up to at RSS this year!

grasp.upenn.edu/news/the-gra...

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Congratulations to GRASP Faculty Dr. Masoud Akbarzadeh as he appears in the Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs Magazine!!!

Read the article here!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/dr-maso...

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Check out this article written by GRASP's own Jillian Mallon of all the achievements GRASP students have received over the Spring semester!

www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/2025-gr...

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GRASP holds its first Volunteer Awards Ceremony - GRASP Lab Text by Jillian Mallon Caption for featured photo: A group photo of Robotics Master’s students, GRASP student volunteers, and faculty […]

The GRASP Lab held its first ever Volunteer Awards Ceremony!
Check out this article about the event written by GRASP's own Jillian Mallon!

www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-h...

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CONGRATULATIONS to Nemirovsky Family Dean, Dr. Vijay Kumar on receiving the 2025 RSS Test of Time Award!!!

What an incredible award for an incredible Dean!!!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #RSSAward #TestofTimeAward2025

We are extending the deadline of the M3ED SLAM Challenge for a week! 🚀 Last call to submit your results for pose estimation with high-resolution event cameras. You have until June 9, 11.59 pm ET, to submit your results.

Challenge: www.codabench.org/competitions...
Dataset: m3ed.io

What a great time at ICRA 2025!
We hope you all had a blast at the GRASP Reunion at ICRA!

Hope to see you at the next GRASP event!

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I will present our work on air-ground collaboration with SPOMP in 407A in a few minutes! We deployed 1 UAV and 3 UGVs in a fully autonomous mapping mission in large-scale environments. Come check it out! #ICRA2025 @grasplab.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS to the ROBO Master students award winners!
Outstanding Academic - Shubhodeep Aditya
Outstanding Research - George Gao
Outstanding Service - Erica Santos
Outstanding Teaching - Benedict Onyekwe

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CONGRATULATIONS to the ROBO class of 2025!!!

#Graduation #ROBO2025

Look out for the GRASP Lab at ICRA 2025 from May 19th-23rd!
Check out what events the GRASP Lab will be involved with and our timeline with the link below!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/the-gra...

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We hope everyone had a wonderful and informative time at the GRASP Lightning Talks and Poster Session and the ROBO Grad Celebration!! It was awesome seeing you all there!
Also a big CONGRATULATIONS to the MS Award recipients!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Elizabeth “Bibit” Bianchini and Victoria “Torrie” Edwards on receiving the 2025 John A. Goff Prize!!!
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/john-a-...

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Join us TODAY for the ROBOTICS MSE Thesis and Capstone Lightning Talks with a poster session starting at 2pm!
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

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We want to thank everyone that was able to come out to the GRASP Bring your Childern to Work Day! We hope you all had a great time!
Thank you to all our GRASP volunteers as well! It wouldn't be possible without you!

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Fun with Robots week 3 starts TOMORROW from 4PM-5PM at the Roxborough Library! GRASP's own Daniel Feshbach will be presenting Origami Robotics!
We hope you all have an amazing time!

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We hope everyone had a wonderful time at the Fun with Robots week 2 event at the Roxborough Library!
A BIG Thank you to Yuwei Wu for presenting this week!
Hope to see you all at week 3!

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Check out our newest Inside the GRASP Lab video featuring Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab!
youtu.be/zo-SQFYTECs?...

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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Phillip Isola who will be presenting “Robots and Artificial Life from Visual Foundation Models” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

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Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Ph.D. candidate Haimin Hu who will be presenting "From Gambits to Assurances: Game-Theoretic Integration of Safety and Learning for Human-Centered Robotics" from 3PM-4PM.
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Posa @michaelposa.bsky.social on receiving the 2024 Best Paper Award at the IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics!
More info here!
www.tcoptrob.org/news/2025-04...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #BestPaperAward #IEEE2024

Fun with Robots week 2 starts TOMORROW from 4PM-5PM at the Roxborough Library! GRASP's own Yuwei Wu will be presenting Flying Robot Swarms!
We hope you all have a wonderful time!

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