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Founded in 1979, the GRASP Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research center, and premiere robotics incubator within Penn Engineering.

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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Daniel Lee who will be presenting β€œAI White Boxes and Neural Representation Geometry” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

26.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

26.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Ph.D. candidate, Stone Tao, who will be presenting β€œAccelerating and Driving Robotics Progress with Simulation Integrated Robot Learning” from 3PM-4PM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

25.02.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!
#GRASP #GRASPLab #AIandRobotics

20.02.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. David Held who will be presenting β€œPrecise and Generalizable Robot Manipulation” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

19.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI

18.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof. RenΓ© Vidal’s group at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory explored this problem in their recent publication titled β€œSECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations”...
Read more:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/simple-...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #NeurIPS25

17.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. George Konidaris who will be presenting β€œUnifying the Stack: A Principled Structuralist Approach to Intelligent Robot Control” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

12.02.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...
#GRASP #ArtistinResidence #SungRobotics

11.02.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Chris Paxton as he presents β€œHow Close Are We To Generalist Humanoid Robots?” from 3pm-4pm.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/sprin...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI

10.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!!!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

09.02.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

06.02.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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....

#GRASP #GRASPLab #NanoRobotics

04.02.2026 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

03.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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, β€œToward Task-informed Robot Codesign”
youtu.be/7KVT44xAiis

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminars

30.01.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminars

22.01.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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/

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars #GRASPEvents

16.01.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #RehabilitationRobotics

14.01.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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20 breakthroughs of 2025 | Penn Today From ancient tombs and tiny robots to personalized gene editing and AI weather models, Penn’s 2025 research portfolio showed how curiosityβ€”paired with collaborationβ€”moves knowledge into impact and str...

Check out what the GRASP faculty were up to in 2025 with this breakdown article from Penn Today!!!
shorturl.at/bZYE3

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPFaculty #Breakthroughs2025

09.01.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The GRASP Lab wishes you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #HolidaySeason #HappyNewYear

24.12.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to GRASP Faculty Member Dr. Nadia Figueroa on receiving the NSF Career Award! β€œWe 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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #NSFAward

23.12.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

#GRASP #MEAM

18.12.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

12.12.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!
#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatPERCH

10.12.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars - YouTube The Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars

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

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars

05.12.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Minghan Zhu who will be presenting β€œ3D Robot Vision for Structured World Understanding” from 3PM-4PM!
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

02.12.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

26.11.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP on Robotics seminar featuring Dr. Jie Tan who will be presenting "Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World" from 10:30AM - 11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

20.11.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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STARTING NOW GRASP SFI featuring Dr. Wei Wang who will be presenting "Toward Advanced Autonomy in Complex Aquatic Environments"!!!
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI

19.11.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars - YouTube The Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars

If you missed any of the GRASP Seminars that happened during the Fall Semester, we upload almost all of them on your YouTube channel! Check out the playlists:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars #Youtube

14.11.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0