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Founded in 1979, the GRASP Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research center, and premiere robotics incubator within Penn Engineering.
CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP Faculty member Dr. Antonio Loquercio on receiving the 2025 Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award!!!

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November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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
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
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
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
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-...

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November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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-...

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October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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-...

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October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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-...

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October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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-...

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October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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...

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October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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-...

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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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-...

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October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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!!!

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October 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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-...

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October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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-...

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October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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-...

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October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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!

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October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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-...

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September 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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!

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September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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...

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September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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-...

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September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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-...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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-...
September 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM