Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars

School of Engineering and Applied Science Associate Professor Cynthia Sung leads a project that reimagines how unmanned extraterrestrial explorers navigate the Moon and Mars…

GRASP Lab 2025 Summer Internship Round-Up

Now that the Fall 2025 semester has started at Penn, current ROBO MSE and PhD students at GRASP might start thinking ahead to their plans next summer. When considering whether to apply for an internship…

Sunflower Spirals and Raspberry Beads: A Nature-Inspired Leap in Water Harvesting Technology

“A major focus of my lab’s work is water harvesting in eco-friendly ways,” says Yang, who also has an appointment in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. “While our fog collectors are great at pulling water…”

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If you haven't seen or want to rewatch any of the GRASP Lab seminars we've had so far in the Fall Semester, check out our YouTube channel! We publicly upload seminars!
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Fall 2025 GRASP SFI

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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!
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6 Oct 1975277916964454647

Congratulations Dr. Arjun Kumar, who defended his doctoral dissertation "SLAM in Hard Places" in late September. 🎉

Kumar, advised by Prof. Ani Hsieh, examined the limitations of standard SLAM techniques in unstructured outdoor and underwater environments.

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Vision Transformers for End-to-End Vision-Based Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance

Anish Bhattacharya, Nishanth Rao, Dhruv Parikh, Pratik Kunapuli, Yuwei Wu, Yuezhan Tao, Nikolai Matni, Vijay Kumar +

GRASP Authors

Nishanth Rao Dhruv Parikh Pratik Kunapuli Yuwei Wu Yuezhan Tao Nikolai Matni Vijay Kumar

Publisher ICRA

Year 2025

MORF: Magnetic Origami Reprogramming and Folding System for Repeatably Reconfigurable Structures with Fold Angle Control

Gabriel Unger, Sridhar Shenoy, Tianyu Li, Nadia Figueroa, Cynthia Sung +

GRASP Authors

Gabriel Unger Tianyu Li Nadia Figueroa Cynthia Sung

Publisher ICRA

Year 2025

Slot-BERT: Self-supervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video

Guiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Marcel Hussing, Kenta Nakahashi, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Amin Madani, Eric Eaton, Daniel A. Hashimoto +

GRASP Authors

Marcel Hussing Eric Eaton Daniel Hashimoto

Publisher arXiv

Year 2025

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