GRASP Lab - UPenn

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Jay Patrikar who will be presenting “Exploiting Uncertainty for Fieldable Robot Autonomy” from 3PM-4PM.
Fore more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-sfi-jay-patrikar/

STARTING SOON
Please welcome Dr. Nikolay Atanasov who will be presenting “Elements of Generalizable Robot Autonomy” from 10:30AM - 11:45AM TODAY!!!
For More info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-on-robotics-nikolay-atanasov/

We hope the students from Kingsway Regional HS FIRST Robotics Team had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A HUGE Thank You to our wonderful researchers taking time out of their schedules to showcase their recent work to the aspiring team!

Join us TODAY for the GRASP SFI seminar featuring Dr. Ruta Desai who will be presenting “Towards AI Partners: Socially Intelligent Agents that Augment Human Abilities” from 3PM-4PM.
For more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-sfi-ruta-desai/

We hope the students from Marian Anderson NSBE junior chapter had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab!
A BIG Thank You to the GRASP volunteers who took time out of their schedules to share their research to these aspiring students!

We at the GRASP Lab were proud to showcase our work at the Philly AI X Robotics workshop!

The event was hosted by Penn Engineering and catalyzed by Elaine Cheong.

Thank you to Sylvia Zhang from Penn Engineering AI for the photos!

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. David Held who will be presenting “Precise and Generalizable Robot Manipulation” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-on-robotics-david-held/

The GRASP SFI Seminar featuring Junyao Shi has unfortunately been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date.
Please look out for our announcements of the new date!

Prof. René Vidal’s group at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory explored this problem in their recent publication titled “SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations”...
Read more:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/simple-rephrases-can-confuse-large-language-models/

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. George Konidaris who will be presenting “Unifying the Stack: A Principled Structuralist Approach to Intelligent Robot Control” from 10:30AM-11:45AM.
For more info:
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/spring-2026-grasp-on-robotics-george-konidaris/

If you missed it, have no fear! Dancing Through Life by Erin Rose Boyle, co-led by GRASP's Sung Robotics Lab, is still going until Feb 20th from 12pm-6pm! The exhibit is free and open to the public!
For more info:
https://www.theartsleague.org/events-and-updates/erinroseboyle

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!!!