@grasplab.bsky.socialOur Fall 2026 GRASP Industry Day kicked off this morning with presentations from 9 companies in the robotics industry! We hope our lab members were excited to learn more about their work before our upcoming networking portion of the day!
@grasplab.bsky.socialThe GRASP Lab is proud to announce the signing of a new Master Research Agreement with Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). This collaboration marks another major step forward for multi-robot systems!
Read more here: shorturl.at/fRxgI
@grasplab.bsky.socialSTARTING SOON! Join us for the GRASP SFI featuring Dr. Jesse Zhang who will be presenting “Making Robot Data Count: Toward Robots That Keep Learning After Deployment” from 3PM - 4PM TODAY!
More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
@grasplab.bsky.socialCONGRATULATIONS to Sung Lab's Gabe Unger, Ellen Li, Sophie Lin, and Dr. Cynthia Sung on receiving the 2026 IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design for their co-publication with Allison Okamura's CHARM LAB at Stanford!
Paper: shorturl.at/CRBSb
@grasplab.bsky.socialCONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Pei-An Hsieh (ESE PhD) and Fengjun Yang (CIS PhD '26) and their advisors, Dr. M. Ani Hsieh and Dr. Nikolai Matni, on receiving the IROS 2026 Best Student Paper Award!!!
Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.12275
@grasplab.bsky.socialGRASP SFI seminars are back for the Fall Semester!!!
Join us TOMORROW for the seminar featuring GRASP's own Benjamin Shaffer who will be presenting “Structured learning for Robotic Navigation, Modeling, and Sensing” from 3PM - 4PM.
More info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
@grasplab.bsky.socialTomorrow, GRASP researchers in Sung Lab will present their work on the design of a robotic zipper for self-donning clothing at IROS 2026 as finalist for the Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design!
Read the paper here: repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...
@grasplab.bsky.socialThe GRASP Lab is going to IROS 2026! Check out this program to see what our lab members will be up to at the conference: grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l...
@grasplab.bsky.socialJoin us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Stephanie Gil who will be presenting "Trust, Sensing, and Learning for Provable Multi-Robot Performance" from 10:30am - 11:45am.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
@grasplab.bsky.socialWe hope the students from Wilmington Montessori School and Friends Select School had a wonderful time during their tour of the GRASP Lab today! A HUGE Thank You to all of our lab members who presented their research!
@grasplab.bsky.socialResearchers at the GRASP Lab have developed a planner that can construct environments, plan motion in the environments, and combine the planners seamlessly.
Video: youtu.be/xLHHDw3IQr4?...
@grasplab.bsky.socialMulti-Robot Target Tracking is a collaborative project between GRASP researchers, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Drexel University. Check out their findings in the video below!
Video: youtu.be/uSYPI817Y6c?...
@grasplab.bsky.socialJoin us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Georgia Gkioxari who will be presenting "Towards Self-Improving Machine Perception" from 10:30am - 11:45am.
For more info:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
@grasplab.bsky.socialCheck out this article highlighting GRASP grad students who successfully applied their experience from the RoboRacer ESE course to global RoboRacer conference competitions!
@grasplab.bsky.socialThe GRASP Lab will be at the AI Horizons Pittsburgh Summit! Come say hi at our booth!
@grasplab.bsky.socialCheck out this article highlighting the 2026 summer internship experiences of six GRASP Lab graduate students!
www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l...
@grasplab.bsky.socialJoin us TOMORROW for the GRASP Research Overview Day 2 Seminar starting at 10:30AM - 11:45AM.
For more info on the seminar, visit:
www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...
