Steven Chen

Check out our video on long-range GPS-denied under-canopy autonomous flight! Our quad can fly 800 m autonomously in very challenging conditions while performing real-time semantic SLAM. Great work by Xu Liu, @guinardari, @chenstew, @vijay_r_kumar, et al. youtu.be/Ad3ANMX8gd4

"The vast forests of our national parks and timber farms have countless trees, but you can’t put 'countless' on the paperwork." 💯%! That's why our drones map forests with unprecedented accuracy + speed, while helping foresters make huge efficiency gains. Thanks @TechCrunch

Today I am leaving the US. With my family we are exploring a new life in the south of France. I’ve been in the US for more than 16 years. I earned my citizenship & experienced many ups & downs. But I am grateful. The US was good to me in many ways ... /1

GRASP Lab's own @Chenstew (PhD, CIS) is co-founder and CEO start-up @TreeswiftTech, a company using swarms of autonomous, flying robots equipped with light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors to survey and monitor forests. blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut…

Treeswift (@TreeswiftTech) plans to automate forestry with swarms of #drones. Learn the process behind the technology here: bit.ly/3n1Rq3p

Steven Chen, doctoral student in CIS, is the co-founder and CEO of @TreeswiftTech, a company using robotics and machine learning technology for forest management. Chen also wants to optimize data collection, which can aid in #climatechange initiatives. blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut…

Congratulations to @chenstew, @elizehunter, Michael Shomin and Vaibhav Arcot - great article on @treeswifttech robots tackling world's massive carbon crisis blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut… Very proud! @PennEngineers @GRASPlab

Our CEO @chenstew was interviewed by @BomDiaBrasil! 👇Watch to learn about our robotic #forestry platform for #timber cruising globoplay.globo.com/v/8802420/

My dad sent me this view from my childhood room in Portland. It hit me that we have been wasting our collective intelligence in tech optimizing for profits and ad clicks.

Forest surveying is an essential metric for the $500 bn global forestry industry. That’s why Trefo is introducing a novel UAV-based approach to make surveying cheaper, faster and more accurate.🌳 Read more about our investment in Trefo here: blog.dormroomfund.com/blog/under-the…

There is one hour left to vote for the @Wharton @WhartonEntrep Startup Challenge crowd favorite. Throw a vote to MAR Designs (@rmli_ @AriellaMans & me). We are working to improve the lives of kids with cerebral palsy with a novel orthosis.

GRASP is building telemedicine carts to reduce risk to @Penn Medicine specialists. The carts will replicate the functionality of commercially available carts but at a lower price and with off the shelf parts. We're deploying later this week. #coronavirus

Thank you for all your support @AlisonBLowndes! #NVIDIAInception #GTC2020

Excited to show off some of our recent work in robotic forestry! Video: youtu.be/V5C5MC5P8Q8 @vijay_r_kumar @GRASPlab @PennEngineers #forestry #Drones

A great start to the new decade - our work on precision agriculture by @chenstew @elijah4rain Xu Li Guilherme Nardari @GRASPlab @PennEngineers

SLOAM: Semantic Lidar Odometry and Mapping for Forest Inventory deepai.org/publication/sl… by Steven W. Chen et al. including @vijay_r_kumar #Estimator #Statistics

Reading "Zero to One" by @peterthiel and came across his comparison of airlines vs Google. Anyone else think that the self driving car industry will end up like the airline industry (highly competitive)? Creates a lot of value but hard to capture it. @zerotoone @selfdriving

Presented our work on RGB and Sparse Depth fusion - "DFuseNet" at @itsc2019 youtube.com/watch?v=XhRelR… - at 8:30 I describe the small calibrated dataset that we collected in Philly with @ousterlidar + @Stereolabs3D for additional validation. @GRASPlab thanks to Ty, Ian & @chenstew!

Large Scale Model Predictive Control with Neural Networks and Primal Active Sets deepai.org/publication/la… by Steven W. Chen et al. including @vijay_r_kumar #LossFunction #NeuralNetwork

Congratulations to Vijay Kumar for the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award - the highest distinction in robotics. He is a great leader and innovator, and an outstanding personality!