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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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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!!!

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February 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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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...

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February 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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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....

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February 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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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...

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February 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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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, “Toward Task-informed Robot Codesign”
youtu.be/7KVT44xAiis

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January 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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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...

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January 22, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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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/

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January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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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...

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January 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Check out what the GRASP faculty were up to in 2025 with this breakdown article from Penn Today!!!
shorturl.at/bZYE3

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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 curiosity—paired with collaboration—moves knowledge into impact and str...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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The GRASP Lab wishes you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #HolidaySeason #HappyNewYear
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Congratulations to GRASP Faculty Member Dr. Nadia Figueroa on receiving the NSF Career Award! “We 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...

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December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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...

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December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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

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Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars - YouTube
The Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars
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December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Minghan Zhu who will be presenting “3D Robot Vision for Structured World Understanding” from 3PM-4PM!
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

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December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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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!

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November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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-...

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November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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-...

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November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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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...
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Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars - YouTube
The Fall 2025 GRASP Seminars
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP Faculty member Dr. Antonio Loquercio on receiving the 2025 Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award!!!

#GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPEngineering
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP on Robotics seminar featuring Dr. Jan Peters who will be presenting “Inductive Biases for Robot Learning” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

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November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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STARTING SOON! GRASP on Robotics featuring Dr. Neville Hogan who will be presenting "Sensory-motor control in humans and robots" from 10:30AM-11:45PM.
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

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November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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STARTING SOON! GRASP SFI seminar featuring Huy Ha who will be presenting "UMI on Legs: Making Manipulation Policies Mobile with Manipulation-Centric Whole-body Controllers" at 3PM!
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

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November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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As Fall 2025 GRASP Industry Day approaches this Thursday, here is a testimonial from ROBO alum Harshil Parekh about meeting his current employer at our last Industry Day! We hope this inspires current lab members to attend!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-i...

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November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM