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National Robotics Week Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofpennsylvania/sets/72157623765303759/

10/13/2026

Last Friday's Fall 2026 GRASP Industry Day ended with tabling and networking sessions featuring 11 companies from the robotics industry. We hope our lab members made some great connections!
Thank you to all those who attended!

10/12/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to Kumar Lab members Yuwei Wu, Jinyuan Zhang, Jonathan Diller, and Dr. Vijay Kumar on receiving Best Paper Award at the Foundation Models in Multi-Robot Systems workshop!
Read more: https://zhourobotics.github.io/fm-mrs/

10/09/2026

Our 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!

10/08/2026

The 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: https://shorturl.at/fRxgI

10/07/2026

STARTING 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: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2026-grasp-sfi-jesse-zhang/

10/01/2026

CONGRATULATIONS 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: https://shorturl.at/CRBSb

09/30/2026

CONGRATULATIONS 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: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12275

09/29/2026

GRASP 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:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2026-grasp-sfi-benjamin-shaffer/

09/28/2026

We at the GRASPLab are pleased to announce our capstone partnership with PrismaX!

With PrismaX's support, we will empower the next generation of robotic researchers to explore reinforcement learning for adaptive robot policies!

09/17/2026

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Georgia Gkioxari who will be presenting "Towards Self-Improving Machine Perception" from 10:30am - 11:45am.
For more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2026-grasp-on-robotics-georgia-gkioxari/

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