The GRASP Lab wishes you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! #GRASP #GRASPLab #HolidaySeason #HappyNewYear

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... #GRASP #GRASPLab #NSFAward

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

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... #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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

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 #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

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! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI

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... youtube.com/playlist?lis... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars #Youtube

CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP Faculty member Dr. Antonio Loquercio on receiving the 2025 Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPEngineering

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

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-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

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... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPIndustryDay

Join us TODAY for a GRASP Seminar featuring Dr. Aljoša Ošep who will be presenting "Segmenting More Than Meets the Eye: Towards Amodal 4D Segmentation" from 1PM-2PM In-Person ONLY! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar

STARTING SOON! GRASP on Robotics featuring Dr. Kris Hauser who will be presenting "Modeling and Reasoning About ‘Stuff" from 10:30AM - 11:45AM. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

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! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

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: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

STARTING SOON!!! GRASP on Robotics featuring Dr. Alan Yuille who will be presenting "3D Vision Language Models and Interactive World Models" from 10:30am-11:45am TODAY!!! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

STARTING SOON!!! GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Suraj Nair who will be presenting "Scaling Robot Learning with Vision-Language-Action Models" from 3pm-4pm. More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

Treeswift was recently highlighted on Bloomberg TV, where they discussed their role in assisting utility partners by using physical AI to address crucial challenges throughout the entire grid! Check out the video: youtu.be/jhazc2xZ-Wk?... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPAlumni

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy who received the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, from the National Academy of Medicine. This medal is awarded to a member from a discipline outside the health and medical sciences! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/nationa... #GRASP #GRASPLab

STARTING SOON! Join us for the GRASP on Robotics seminar featuring Dr. Parastoo Abtahi who will be presenting. "When Robots Disappear – From Haptic Illusions in VR to Object-Oriented Interactions in AR" from 10:30AM-11:45AM! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab

STARTING SOON! The GRASP SFI featuring Rao Fu who will be presenting "From Words to Worlds: Bridging Linguistic and Spatial Physical Intelligence" from 3pm-4pm TODAY!!! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

We hope the students from FTC Architects had a wonderful time at the GRASP Lab! A BIG Thank you to our presenters for taking time out of their busy Fall Semester to showcase their work!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour #GRASPRobots

If you haven't seen or want to rewatch any of the GRASP Lab seminars we've had so far in the Fall Semester, check out our YouTube channel! We publicly upload most seminars! Links: GRASP on Robotics: shorturl.at/Vyhvl GRASP SFI: shorturl.at/N9zJW #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars

STARTING SOON! The GRASP SFI seminar featuring Tianjiao Ding who will be presenting “Learning Parsimonious Representations for Efficient Analysis and Synthesis” from 3PM-4PM TODAY! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

Join us TODAY for a GRASP Seminar featuring Otman Benchekroun who will be presenting "Subspace Design for Interactive and Controllable Physics Simulation" from 11am-12pm. In-person ONLY! For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP on Robotics seminar featuring GRASP's own Dr. Jiatao Gu who will be presenting "Towards Robust World Models" from 10:30AM-11:45AM. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics #GRASPSeminar

We at the GRASP Lab were thrilled to have the Lithuanian Delegation visit the GRASP Lab at PERCH!!! It was a wonderful time and we hope our research captivated the Delegation! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPVisit #GRASPResearch

Join us TOMORROW for a GRASP SFI seminar featuring Binghao Huang who will be presenting "Scaling Touch: Flexible Tactile Skin for Dexterous Manipulation" from 3PM - 4PM. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminar

The GRASP Lab was at the Phillies game this past weekend! We hope everyone had a wonderful time at our tailgate and the ball game! Hope to see everyone again at the next one! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatBallpark #GRASPatPhillies

We are ECSTATIC to share the latest GRASP Lab news of the TRUSSES project run by Dr. Cynthia Sung's Sung Robotics and Dr. Mark Yim's Modlab!!! Article: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/helping... #GRASP #GRASPLab #TRUSSES #TRUSSESProject

Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Deepti Ghadiyaram who will be presenting "Interpreting and Leveraging Generative Representations" from 3pm-4pm. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI #GRASPSeminars

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Max Welling who will be virtually presenting “On the Role of Uncertainty in Automating the Scientific Process with AI” from 10:30AM-11:45AM. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics

Join us TOMORROW for Day 2 of the Fall 2025 GRASP Research Overview from 10:30am - 11:45am! Please find more details in the link below! www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-...

Join us TODAY for the return of the GRASP SFI Seminar series for the Fall 2025 Semester! Please welcome Tairan He who will be presenting "“Scalable Sim-to-Real Learning for General-Purpose Humanoid Skills” from 3PM-4PM. More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSFI

Join us TOMORROW for the Fall 2025 GRASP Research Overview Day 1 Presentations! The Presentations will be between 10:30am - 11:45am! For more info, visit: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearch #GRASPOverview

Welcome back to all new and returning students! We hope everyone had a great start to their semester and a great time at the GRASP Lab's Welcome Back BBQ!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPBBQ #WelcomeBack

If you haven't checked out or Spring 2025 GRASP Seminars yet, here is a link to the playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars #Youtube

If you haven't seen the GRASP Lab's latest seminar, please watch this seminar featuring Dr. Michal Gregor as he presents “Low-Resource NLP: Not Just Throwing Data at a Model and Hoping for the Best” www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2QM... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar

We would like to give a BIG Thank you to our research presenters who showcased their work to the HCE Academy! We hope they had a wonderful time! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

We would like to extend a BIG Thank you to Berkshire Grey for sharing their robots with us! We are excited to start new projects and utilize our new bots in our Robotics Master's Program courses and GRASP research! #GRASP #GRASPLab #BerkshireGrey #Robotics

We hope the BLI and PSSI outreach groups had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!! A BIG Thank you to the GRASP researchers for showcasing their research to the aspiring students! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Dr. George Pappas on receiving the 2025 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award!!! Check out the article below! www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/george-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #IEEEKirchmayerAward

GRASP Lab researchers shared some recent work at the International Foundation of Robotics Research's 19th International Symposium! Check out our program below! www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/the-gra... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatISER #ISER2025

We hope the students from Unite-SMP/AEOP had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab at Levine! A BIG Thank you to our GRASP researchers for taking time out of their busy schedules to present their work to the aspiring students! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

"From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt’s monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material employed by Roman engineers" Read more: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/designi... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPNews