GRASP Lab - UPenn

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A page for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
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National Robotics Week Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofpennsylvania/sets/72157623765303759/

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Jun 13, 2023	Инженеры разработали треугольного робота-трансформера для работы в космосе	Учёные разработали робота-трансформера, вдохновлённого оригами, который может перевозить грузы, взаимодействовать с людьми, менять свою форму и размер множеством способов, что делает его перспективной конструкцией для будущих космических ми...
Jul 7, 2022	Tech is set to drive ‘every aspect of society.’ What are Philadelphia’s universities doing to diversify their STEM talent pipelines?	If you take a seat in any tech-focused higher education classroom, the industry’s diversity problem makes itself pretty clear. While the number of undergraduate students of color at higher ed institutions across the US has risen sharply in ...
Feb 28, 2018	Assembling an Ecosystem with the Robotics, UAV, & Drone Community	The robotics, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and drone industries are growing in the region. Last year the Philadelphia Inquirer announced the city as the “robotics hub of the East Coast,” and while the announcement seemed gratuitous to so...
Feb 21, 2017	Exyn unveils AI to help drones fly autonomously, even indoors or off the grid	A startup called Exyn Technologies Inc. today revealed AI software that enables drones to fly autonomously, even in dark, obstacle-filled environments or beyond the reaches of GPS. A spin-out of the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Labs, ...
Feb 20, 2017	COSY Just Raised $2.35 Million	Pennovation-based robotics startup COSY just raised a $2.35 million seed round by Intel and Chicago-based venture firm GoodPoint Ventures, with participation from Safeguard Scientifics and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. COSY CEO Jonas Cl...
Feb 20, 2017	COSY Just Raised $2.35 Million	Pennovation-based robotics startup COSY just raised a $2.35 million seed round by Intel and Chicago-based venture firm GoodPoint Ventures, with participation from Safeguard Scientifics and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. COSY CEO Jonas Cl...
Feb 17, 2017	COSY just raised $2.35 million	Pennovation-based robotics startup COSY just raised a $2.35 million seed round by Intel and San Francisco-based venture firm GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Safeguard Scientifics and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. COSY CEO J...
Mar 11, 2013	Watch Penn’s robot boats on a rescue mission [VIDEO]	Last year, Penn‘s flying robots, or quadrotors, played the James Bond theme. Now a new set of Penn robot boats are carrying out rescue missions. From a team led by Penn engineering professors Vijay Kumar and Mark Yim, these robots are part ...
Nov 27, 2012	Teaching tiny drones how to fly themselves	A quadrotor in the University of Pennsylvania GRASP labs. University of Pennsylvania (loop by Aurich Lawson) reader comments 55 with 41 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Thanks to the ...
Aug 17, 2012	Color-Changing Soft Robots Will Someday Simulate The Crawlers Of The Deep	Soft robots are made of silicone and use hydraulic controls to move across a surface or lift an object. Researchers at Harvard University have gotten these guys to walk around (albeit while tethered to a heavy control unit) and now they’ve ...
May 1, 2012	GRASP Laboratories: UPenn’s robotics research lab incubates startups that fly [VIDEO]	http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=7e932538ec39b&p=fc_social University of Pennsylvania-housed GRASP Laboratory may likely be the city’s only incubator that produces things that actually fly. That’s because GRASP — which ...
Apr 18, 2012	Nanocopters, Smartbirds, and beyond: The coolest robot videos ever	1 of 8 Next » Hardly a week goes by without an amazing new robot video showing up on the web. After diligently watching well over a hundred of them, I’ve collected a number of videos that demonstrate the incredible capabilities of modern ro...
Feb 1, 2012	Swarming Robots Will Fly Menacingly Towards Your Loved Ones In Perfect Formation	This video is making the nerd rounds today and it’s pretty amazing. It shows a set of quadrocopters first righting themselves after a catastrophic failure and returning to a certain point (the scientists throw the little guys into the air a...
Dec 7, 2011	State and District math and science policies leave gaps in competitive STEM curriculum	The cover of the subsequent book resulting from the Gathering Storm committee. This story is part of a series produced by Technically Philly. It is published in support of Teach for America’s 2012 education workshop series Greater Philadelp...
May 10, 2011	These Quadrocopters Fly In Perfect Formation, Aim For Soft Parts Of The Body	Another day, another set of robotic quadrocopters flying in formation. In our continuing series featuring the GRASP manhack quadrocopters, we present a video of the wee robots flying in perfect formation in their string cage. These robots c...
Sep 16, 2010	Aggressive Quadrocopter Can Fly Through Hoops	Yeah, we’re doomed. Remember those cool Quadrocopter Manhacks created by the GRASP Lab at U. Penn? Well it’s getting worse: now these things can react to objects thrown in their path and fly around them autonomously. They can even right the...
Jul 12, 2010	Microcopters working together making lifting blocks fun and easy	“Cooperative grasping” sounds kind of like what goes on at the sleazier clubs around here, but we’ll give these seasoned roboticists a pass on that one, because let’s be honest, every roboticist deserves a break. These little quadrotor micr...
May 28, 2010	UPenn students invent Manhacks	Sweet Jupiter’s Loins! Look at this thing. It’s a quad rotor flyer with 20 independent cameras designed to blow through windows and sneak around tight spaces nary a whisper. I’m not sure what’s scarier – the device itself or the sounds it m...

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