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We believe that our research in GRASP is better with a diverse team in a collaborative environment. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences in age, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our lab members who they are. In recognition of the importance of collaboration, we do not abide intolerance, disrespectful or hurtful behavior.
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Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Year 2021
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Year 2021
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Year 2021
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TODAY @ 11am #GRASPOnRobotics welcomes Dr. @timothyhchung from @DARPA. See the Livestream here: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/livestream/
To accommodate remote learning amid the pandemic, Cynthia Sung and her TAs prepared a virtual simulator that could stand in for the hands-on elements of her Intro to Robotics course. https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/virtual-robots-taking-risks-in-an-online-classroom/
Our paper "Reactive Planning for Mobile Manipulation Tasks in Unexplored Semantic Environments" was accepted to ICRA 2021! Joint work with Y. Kantaros, @pappasg69, @kodlab - Preprint available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00642
Jessica McWilliams' paper "Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle via Bistable Mechanism” has also been accepted for presentation at #ICRA2021 - check it out here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00426
Let the #ICRA2021 tweets begin! @GedaliahKnizhn1 paper, Docking and Undocking a Modular Underactuated Oscillating Swimming Robot, has been accepted for presentation; more here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12909
Fred's visit to Pennovation (in pre-COVID times) was featured on @AdoptCtr @NBCPhiladelphia
Wednesday's Child: Fred
Fred is a curious child looking for a family to adopt him. NBC10’s Vai Sikahema introduces us to Fred duri...
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