@GRASPlab

Founded in 1979, the GRASP Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research center, and premiere robotics incubator within Penn Engineering.

Joined September 2009
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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-… #GRASPLab
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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 a finalist for the Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design! Read the paper here: repository.upenn.edu/entitie… #GRASPLab #IROS2026
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We at the GRASPLab are pleased to announce our capstone partnership with @PrismaXai ! 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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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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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! youtube.com/watch?v=uF26IkRF… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPatIROS #IROS2026
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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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics
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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: youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBkJmCK… #GRASP #GRASPLab
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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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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?si=nhpF… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers
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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?t=1 #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPResearchers
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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: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPonRobotics
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Check out this article highlighting GRASP grad students who successfully applied their experience from the RoboRacer ESE course to global RoboRacer conference competitions! grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-g… #GRASP #GRASPLab #RoboRacer
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The GRASP Lab will be at the AI Horizons Pittsburgh Summit! Come say hi at our booth! #GRASP #GRASPLab #AIHorizons
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Check out this article highlighting the 2026 summer internship experiences of six GRASP Lab graduate students! grasp.upenn.edu/news/grasp-l… #GRASP #GRASPLab
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Join us TOMORROW for the GRASP Research Overview Day 2 Seminar starting at 10:30AM - 11:45AM. For more info on the seminar, visit: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminar #GRASPResearch
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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 Seminars are back! Please join us tomorrow for the GRASP Research Overview Day 1 seminar! More info: grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-… #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPSeminars
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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: youtube.com/watch?v=Pvb-VPUd… #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab
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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'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: youtube.com/watch?v=tA02dJz9… #GRASP #GRASPLab #KumarLab
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