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CONGRATULATIONS to GRASP's own Pei-An Hsieh (ESE PhD) and Fengjun Yang (CIS PhD '26) and their advisors, Dr. M. Ani Hsieh and Dr. Nikolai Matni, on receiving the IROS 2026 Best Student Paper Award!!! Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.12275 #GRASP #GRASPLab #BestStudentPaperAward #IROS2026

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GRASP SFI seminars are back for the Fall Semester!!! Join us TOMORROW for the seminar featuring GRASP's own Benjamin Shaffer who will be presenting “Structured learning for Robotic Navigation, Modeling, and Sensing” from 3PM - 4PM. More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow, GRASP researchers in Sung Lab will present their work on the design of a robotic zipper for self-donning clothing at IROS 2026 as finalist for the Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design! Read the paper here: repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub... #GRASPLab #GRASPatIROS #IROS2026

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We at the GRASPLab are pleased to announce our capstone partnership with PrismaX! With PrismaX's support, we will empower the next generation of robotic researchers to explore reinforcement learning for adaptive robot policies!

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The GRASP Lab is going to IROS 2026! Check out this program to see what our lab members will be up to at the conference: grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l... #GRASP #GRASPLab #IROS2026 #GRASPatIROS

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Monday, GRASP researchers will be presenting "Flatness-Preserving Residual Learning for Real-Time Tight Quadrotor Formation Flight" at IROS 2026 as a finalist for the Best Paper / Best Student Paper Award! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF26...

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Stephanie Gil who will be presenting "Trust, Sensing, and Learning for Provable Multi-Robot Performance" from 10:30am - 11:45am. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab developed an indoor exploration framework that uses learning to predict unseen area environments to plan Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots (SEER). Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBk...

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We hope the students from Wilmington Montessori School and Friends Select School had a wonderful time during their tour of the GRASP Lab today! A HUGE Thank You to all of our lab members who presented their research! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Researchers at the GRASP Lab have developed a planner that can construct environments, plan motion in the environments, and combine the planners seamlessly. Video: youtu.be/xLHHDw3IQr4?... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers

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Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors

YouTube video by Vijay Kumar

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Multi-Robot Target Tracking is a collaborative project between GRASP researchers, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Drexel University. Check out their findings in the video below! Video: youtu.be/uSYPI817Y6c?... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearch

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Multi-Robot Target Tracking with Sensing and Communication Danger Zones

YouTube video by Drexel Zhou Robotics Lab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us TOMORROW in welcoming Dr. Georgia Gkioxari who will be presenting "Towards Self-Improving Machine Perception" from 10:30am - 11:45am. For more info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out this article highlighting GRASP grad students who successfully applied their experience from the RoboRacer ESE course to global RoboRacer conference competitions! www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-g... #GRASP #GRASPLab #RoboRacer

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The GRASP Lab will be at the AI Horizons Pittsburgh Summit! Come say hi at our booth! #GRASP #GRASPLab #AIHorizons

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Check out this article highlighting the 2026 summer internship experiences of six GRASP Lab graduate students! www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l... #GRASP #GRASPLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP Research Overview Day 2 Seminar starting at 10:30AM - 11:45AM. For more info on the seminar, visit: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar #GRASPResearch

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you all for coming to the GRASP Research Overview Day 1! We hope this seminar gave you a sneak peek at who we are as the GRASP Lab! See you next Friday for Day 2!!! Recording: youtu.be/aTUOtiWvpuM #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

GRASP Seminars are back! Please join us tomorrow for the GRASP Research Overview Day 1 seminar! More info: www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab collaborated with researchers from MIT to develop a new algorithm to find optimized, safe flight paths for robots by mapping areas and planning collision-free trajectories. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvb-... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

EvMAPPER is a GRASP collaborative project that introduces the first orthomosaic approach for event cameras, enabling map generation even in challenging light conditions such as direct sunlight or after sunset. Website: evmapper.fcladera.com #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab developed a novel learning-based trajectory planning framework for quadrotors that optimizes their trajectory by changing the optimization problem into a quadratic programming problem. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA02... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We hope everyone had a wonderful time at the GRASP Welcome Back BBQ! Wishing you all a wonderful start to the semester!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPBBQ #Fall2026

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congratulations to GRASP's own Dr. Lingjie Liu on receiving the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, for her "outstanding contributions to neural representations, human performance capture and animation, and 3D reconstruction”. #GRASP #GRASPLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Researchers at GRASP have developed M3ED, a multi-sensor event camera that provides high-quality, synchronized, and labeled data that can be used on multiple robotic platforms. Website: m3ed.io #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Perception, Action, and Learning Group has found that sensory information is rarely task-critical in many commonly studied task setups. Read more on their findings: sites.google.com/view/vosi-ro... #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

GRASP's Perception, Action, and Learning Group proposes evaluating robots through "interactive reward functions" (IRFs) for training reinforcement learning policies. Website: sites.google.com/view/lirf-co... #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

GRASP's Figueroa Lab has developed the OCR framework, a policy that addresses the challenges in out-of-distribution scenarios in visuomotor policy learning. Website: sites.google.com/view/ocr-penn #GRASP #GRASPLab #FigueroaLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

GRASP Researchers have tested both reinforcement learning (RL) and geometric controllers (GC) to find which would be best for a quadrotor with a fixed arm. Read the results here: pratikkunapuli.github.io/rl-vs-gc/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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: omniguide.github.io #GRASP #GRASPLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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: edwardshu.com/rac/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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: www.anishbhattacharya.com/research/evd... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We hope the students from S2STEM had a wonderful time seeing projects from our lovely GRASP students! A HUGE Thank You to our GRASP lab members for presenting to the STEM students!!! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour #S2STEM

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab has studied the capabilities of the vision transformer (ViT) architecture that maps depth images to velocity commands in both real-world applications and simulations. Read the study here: www.anishbhattacharya.com/research/vit... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

GRASP's Perception, Action, and Learning group has developed "Planning Exploratory Goals" (PEG), a reinforcement learning agent that sets its goals at training time to maximize exploration. Website: penn-pal-lab.github.io/peg/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab developed the first static-obstacle avoidance method for quadrotors using onboard monocular event cameras. Website: www.anishbhattacharya.com/research/evfly Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI51... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

GRASP's own Dr. Eric Eaton (@ericeaton.bsky.social)will serve as managing director for the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (NSF HAIC @haicinstitute.bsky.social ), a national hub for human-centered AI! Read Here: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/nsfhaic/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #NSF #HAIC

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ericeaton.bsky.social @ericeaton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m honored to serve as Managing Director of the new NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (HAIC), developing adaptive, collaborative, and trustworthy AI systems designed to strengthen human decision-making. @haicinstitute.bsky.social penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-pa...

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Penn partners in new National Science Foundation AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation | Penn Today

Funded by a $21.5 million, five-year award, NSF HAIC will focus on pioneering AI’s role in improving healthcare.

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Articulate-Anything is a system that automates the articulation of objects from different inputs that include text, image, and videos into high-quality simulations used to train robotic skills. Developed by GRASP's Perception, Action, and Learning Group. Website: articulate-anything.github.io #GRASP

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

GRASP's Figueroa Lab developed Elastic-DS, a novel Dynamical System that can adapt to new task instances and trajectories. Website: sites.google.com/view/elastic... #GRASP #GRASPLab #FigueroaLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We hope the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) and Summer Mentorship Program (SMP) had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab! A HUGE Thank you to our wonderful GRASP volunteers who showcased their work to these bright students! #GRASP #GRASPLab #SMP #LRSM

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Scaffolder is a system that enhances reinforcement learning training by exploiting privileged sensing and outperforms or compares to already existing baseline policies. This policy was created by GRASP's Perception, Action, and Learning Group. Website: penn-pal-lab.github.io/scaffolder/ #GRASPLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab has developed a robotic reinforcement learning system that reduces the Markov decision process and allows for accelerated training. Website: pratikkunapuli.github.io/EQTrackingCo... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AosG... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We want to thank the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) delegation for visiting the GRASP Lab! It was a pleasure to showcase our variety of robotics research projects! Read about it here: www.grasp.upenn.edu/news/nato-ex... #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatPERCH

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

GRASP's Sung Robotics lab developed a lightweight and compact tunable-stiffness actuator based on a coiled spring. The actuator could be useful in future soft robotics applications! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WV... #GRASP #GRASPLab #SungRobotics

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab has developed HALO, a system designed to map and explore large-scale outdoor environments with real-time dense 3D reconstruction vision at large distances. Website: tyuezhan.github.io/halo/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Asymmetric Advantage Weighted Regression (AAWR) is a type of reinforcement learning that leverages privileged information to train active perception policies on real robots. Created by GRASP's Perception, Action, and Learning Group. Website: penn-pal-lab.github.io/aawr/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #PAL

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

GRASP's own Perception, Action, and Learning Group has developed RoboArena, a community-run benchmark for evaluating generalist robot policies through the DROID robot platform. Website: robo-arena.github.io #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Magnetic Origami Reprogramming and Folding System (MORF) is a joint project between GRASP's Sung Robotics and Figueroa Labs consisting of thermoplastic and magnetic laminate sheets that self-fold with an external magnetic field or heating. Video: shorturl.at/ETDcs #GRASP #GRASPLab #SungRobotics

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

GRASP's Kumar Lab developed EV-Catcher, a system that uses Event-based sensors to estimate impact locations of high-speed objects accurately. Publication: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab

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GRASP Lab @grasplab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Elastic Motion Policy (EMP) is a framework created by GRASP's Figueroa Lab that allows robots to adapt their movements while continuing their task. Website: elastic-motion-policy.github.io/EMP/ #GRASP #GRASPLab #FigueroaLab

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