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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 Journal of Differential Equations
Year 2021
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Year 2021
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Read GRASP Affiliate Masoud Akbarzadeh's article, Algebraic 3D Graphic Statics: Constrained Areas, in the Journal of Computer-Aided Design https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010448521000798
Congratulations to GRASP Affiliate faculty member Shu Yang on her new appointment as Department Chair of MSE! https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/shu-yang-and-chinedum-osuji-appointed-department-chairs/
Chao Liu's paper "A Quadratic Programming Approach to Manipulation in Real-Time Using Modular Robots" has been accepted by the International Journal of Robotic Computing (IJRC) 🙌
Kod*lab Coordinator Diedra Krieger's series "Waddle Waddle" is featured in RSS 2021 Workshop Robotics X Arts https://sites.gatech.edu/robotic-art-workshop/. Exhibition goes live Wednesday, July 14th at 1:00 PM. @diedrak presents at 3:20 PM. #RSS2021
Marc Miskin named among MIT @techreview 35 Innovators Under 35!
Marc Miskin
He figured out how to give motion to microscopic robots.
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In a new study published in Nature Materials, @LabPikul report a crack-free self-assembly approach for fabricating centimetre-scale nickel nanolattices with crack-free areas that are 20,000 times larger than prior self-assembled nanolattices. Read here:
Centimetre-scale crack-free self-assembly for ultra-high tensile strength metallic nanolattices
Metal nanolattices are fabricated at an unprecedented scale by using a crack-free self-assembly method. The dense nano...
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