National Academy of Medicine Honors Three Members for Outstanding Service
October 20th, 2025
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
School of Engineering and Applied Science Associate Professor Cynthia Sung leads a project that reimagines how unmanned extraterrestrial explorers navigate the Moon and Mars…
GRASP Lab 2025 Summer Internship Round-Up
Now that the Fall 2025 semester has started at Penn, current ROBO MSE and PhD students at GRASP might start thinking ahead to their plans next summer. When considering whether to apply for an internship…
Sunflower Spirals and Raspberry Beads: A Nature-Inspired Leap in Water Harvesting Technology
“A major focus of my lab’s work is water harvesting in eco-friendly ways,” says Yang, who also has an appointment in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. “While our fog collectors are great at pulling water…”
GRASP Lab Virtual Facility Tour
A virtual tour through our 21,000 square feet of research facilities.
Virtual GRASP Lab Demo Videos
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We hope the Matter Venture Partners had a wonderful time tour the GRASP Lab!
Thank you to our wonderful presenters for showcasing there work during a busy semester!
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TOMORROW is the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Roberto Martín-Martín who will be presenting "Making Mobile Manipulation Real: New Learning Paradigms for Robots" from 3PM-4PM.
More info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2025-grasp-sfi-roberto-martin-martin/
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Model-based control promises generalization--just add a model! Yet it's never been that easy. This summer, we wanted to show that we our C3+ controller COULD "Push Anything," just from a visual scan of an object. 33 different objects, including 4 simultaneously, 98% success rate
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