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Fun with Robots is BACK next week on April 9th from 3:30PM-4:30PM at the Roxborough Library! Week 1 will be presented by Rehabilitation Robotics Lab's own Erica Waters and Francis Sowande! #GRASP #GRASPLab #FunwithRobots #RoxboroughLibrary

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Ming C. Lin who will be presenting “Learning the Dynamic World” for the GRASP on Robotics seminar from 10:30am-11:45am! For more info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

AI Month at Penn returns this April, focusing on human-centered AI. Featured Penn Engineering events include the Robotics Summit, AI in Medicine Symposium, IDEAS on Generative AI and weekly seminars. Read more: bit.ly/4bSRCfH #AIMonthAtPenn #2026AIMonth #HumanCenteredAI

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Ji Woong (Brian) Kim who will be presenting “Generalist Robots for Healthcare: From Surgical Robots to Humanoids” from 3PM - 4PM. For more info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

@_1nF0rmed_ Yes, the recording will be posted on the GRASP Lab youtube later today

@GRASPlab Would this be posted online as well or is it only on campus?

STARTING SOON! The GRASP on Robotics seminar featuring Dr. Igor Gilitschenski will begin today from 10:30AM-11:45AM! Dr. Gilitschenski will present “Eyes Do More Than See”. For more info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

"Two Penn Engineering faculty have been elected 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (@AAAS) Fellows. They are among nearly 500 researchers being honored for distinguished contributions to their fields. Cherie Kagan is recognized for her pioneering research on nanostructured materials and their use in advanced devices for electronics, photonics and sensing. George Pappas (@pappasg69) is recognized for his research on control systems, robotics, autonomous systems, formal methods and machine learning for safe and secure cyber-physical systems. Congratulations to Cherie and George on this esteemed honor. @PennEngAI / @ESEatPenn / @MSEatPenn / @MEAM_Penn / @CIS_Penn / @PennChemistry bit.ly/4bSOFfe

When AI enters the physical world, safety is critical. Rahul Mangharam of @PennEngineers leads a new Swarm AI collaboration focused on safe, scalable multi-agent systems. bit.ly/4rWVHFN #ResponsibleAI #AIandRobotics

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Jaimie Carlson who will be presenting "“Autonomous Robotics in Industry at Scale” from 3PM-4PM. For more info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

Check out the this article written by Yi Cao, a Master's student in MEAM and researcher with Modlab run by Dr. Mark Yim. grasp.upenn.edu/news/co-optimi… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPArticle

Fun with Robots is BACK again!!! This year will be a 2 week educational program featuring Dr. Michelle Johnson's Rehabilitation Robotics Lab! We will be located at the Roxborough Library on April 9th and April 16th! Stay tuned for more! #GRASP #GRASPLab #FunwithRobots

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Jay Patrikar who will be presenting “Exploiting Uncertainty for Fieldable Robot Autonomy” from 3PM-4PM. Fore more info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

Last week, the Benjamin Franklin Society gathered in New York City to celebrate the power of philanthropy and community at Penn. Through their generosity, BFS members are expanding opportunities for students and fueling growth in AI, data science and interdisciplinary learning, while supporting bold initiatives like Penn Engineering 2030. At the event, Robert Ghrist (@prof_g) reflected on the lasting impact of philanthropy at Penn: “Your belief today becomes someone else’s possibility tomorrow. It lives on in the innovators who will design safer infrastructure, develop life-saving medical devices, advance sustainable energy and shape technologies we cannot yet imagine.” #PennBFS #InspiringImpact #PennInspires #LOVEPenn #bfsny

VLA policies learn generalist robot behaviors from massive teleoperation datasets, hoping that the right behavior emerges. But they rarely use perception during training or inference: powerful foundation models of 3D geometry, semantics, or human motion are ignored. @TimSong52005757, @LongLeRobot, and our @GRASPlab team introduce Omniguide, based on a simple idea: Instead of retraining policies, let perception guide action at inference time. We express diverse guidance sources as attractive and repulsive energy fields in 3D space and inject their gradients into the generative process of VLA policies. This lets perception modules steer actions without retraining the policy: A modular path toward composable robot intelligence. Project: omniguide.github.io Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.10052

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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

This week's seminar was given by Hanyu Li, postdoc researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on optimizing porous electrode design for ultra-fast charging in advanced batteries. Li was invited by @ParisPerdikaris, Associate Prof. Learn more: events.seas.upenn.edu/event/meam-sem…

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! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

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