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GRASP 2026 PhD Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Brag Sheet!
Congratulations to all of the 2026 GRASP Laboratory alumni who have graduated or moved on to new positions during the 2025 to 2026 academic year! We’d like to highlight some of their outstanding achievements throughout their time at the University of Pennsylvania.
Delivery robots still learning from ‘edge cases,’ scientists say
A 2025 study from engineering experts at the University of Pennsylvania may have some solutions. They include improving complex internal sensors and addressing the simple optical illusion that makes clean glass harder to see than a dirty surface.
Vijay Kumar, dean of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania…
Dancing Through Life: From Origami Robotics to Sculptural Art
One way that the GRASP Lab has explored these boundaries is through the Sung Robotics Lab’s collaboration with The Arts League of Philadelphia, and more specifically through hosting Erin Rose Boyle, artist and the Assistant Director of Academic Enrichment Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor at…
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OmniGuide is a GRASP collaborative project to build a flexible framework that improves Vision-language-action (VLA) model performance, such as 3D foundation models, semantic reasoning VLMs, and human pose models.
Website: https://omniguide.github.io/
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The Perception, Action, and Learning group has developed Robot-Aware Control (RAC), a reinforcement learning policy that exploits readily available knowledge about the robot.
Website: https://edwardshu.com/rac/
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GRASP's Kumar Lab has developed EvDNeRF, a program that generates event data by combining the perception advantages of event cameras with the rendering advantages of NeRFs.
Website: https://www.anishbhattacharya.com/research/evdnerf
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