Getting Robots to “Bee” have Without a Plan
February 9th, 2026
Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
Barely visible to the naked eye, each robot measures about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers, smaller than a grain of salt. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance…
Two Penn Engineers Receive Kaufman Foundation Grants
The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Nathaniel “Nat” Trask and Douglas Jerolmack, who is also the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn Arts & Sciences, will collaborate…
GRASP Industry Day Success Story Highlight: Harshil Parekh
“Every course that I took at Penn contributed some knowledge that I use today at BotBuilt, be it the mechatronics class with Dr. Mark Yim, or Introduction to Robotics with Prof. Figueroa, or Stereo Geometry and…”
GRASP Lab Virtual Facility Tour
A virtual tour through our 21,000 square feet of research facilities.
Virtual GRASP Lab Demo Videos
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Chris Paxton as he presents “How Close Are We To Generalist Humanoid Robots?” from 3pm-4pm.
For more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-sfi-chris-paxton/
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MEAM alumna Torrie Edwards was named a finalist for the 2025 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Systems Best Dissertation Award. Her PhD research advances scalable, biologically inspired multi-robot coordination. Watch a short video highlighting her work ⬇️
We hope everyone from Abington Friends and Frankford Friends school had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A HUGE Thank You to our GRASP volunteers who took time out to showcase their work to the wonderful attendees!
More to come in the future!!!
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