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GRASP Laboratory of Robotics Research and EducationThe General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is a truly inter-disciplinary research center at the University of Pennsylvania. GRASP is housed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science with faculty, students and staff from the departments of Computer and Information Science, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Founded in 1979, the lab has grown today to be one of the premier research centers focusing on fundamental research in robotics, vision, perception, control, automation and learning. GRASP News and EventsNovember 6th, 2009: The GRASP Lab team led by Professor Dan Lee was selected as one of the 12 finalists of MAGIC 2010 Robotics competition. Read More....Army.mil, Dr.Dobb's and Robotics.org August 5th, 2009: Stephen McGill presents his public policy robotics research on capitol hill. Read More August 3rd, 2009: Andrew Hicks, GRASP Alum, was featured in the Philadelphia Magazine, "Best of Philly 2009." July 27th, 2009: Press on Mark Yim and researchers' work with modular robotics in the NY Times, "A Modular Robot that Puts Itself Back Together Again." July 27th, 2009: The $1 million Netflix competition just concluded and David Weiss, CIS PhD candidate, was a member of the winning team, The Ensemble. "Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork" July 7th, 2009: Jianbo Shi and Praveen Srinivasan's work with Abhinav Gupta from the University of Maryland, presented at CVPR in Miami Beach, received press in the IEEE Spectrum and Discovery, "Software Watches Baseball and Calls the Plays." July 1st, 2009: Nathan Michael and Jon Fink won the award for Best Student Paper at the 2009 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference in Seattle, Washington. June 27th, 2009: Annual GRASP Newsletter Summer 09 June 22nd, 2009: #78 MARS Multimedia was included in "100 Ivy-League Learning Tools Anyone Can Access" in an article on bestcollegesonline.com. May 28th, 2009: Katherine Kuchenbecker received a prestigious NSF CAREER award on her work, "Haptography: Capturing and Recreating the Rich Feel of Real Surfaces." May 12th, 2009: Some press on Dan Koditschek's RiSE robot work in MIT's Technology Review and Calin Belta, another GRASP alumnus, talks in the article, "Cutting-Edge Robots Show Off in Japan, ICRA 2009 will showcase everything from tree-climbing machines to robots that politely ask for directions." May 2nd - 3rd, 2009: Dan Lee and the UPennalizers, Penn's Robocup team, competed at the 2009 RoboCup US Open and earned a close second place finish. The UPennalizers competed in the Robocup Standard Platform league, using the Nao humanoid robots, and were one of 4 US teams in the competition. (View Videos). Tuesday, April 28th: Dan Koditschek and Hal Komsuoglu's research work along with Daniel Goldman from Georgia Tech were featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian, "Researchers draw inspiration for their robot from animals." Wednesday, April 22nd: RoboFest: A Celebration of Robotics at the GRASP Lab... A Symposium and Open House honoring Ruzena Bajcsy – GRASP Lab founder and Recipient of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Schedule of Events... April 2009: Rob Ghrist has been awarded the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award! This award is presented annually by the undergraduate student body and the Engineering Alumni Society in recognition of outstanding service in stimulating and guiding the intellectual and professional development of undergraduate students in SEAS. April 2009: Two Graspees, the only students from Engineering, CIS PhD student Roy Anati and ESE PhD student Goran Lynch were awarded the “Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students” for their involvement, passion, initiative taking, and leadership. April 2009: Dan Koditschek, Hal Komsuoglu and Daniel Goldman published their paper "March of the SandBots" on IEEE Spectrum Online. April 2009: Dan Lee is featured in Knowledge@Wharton and Forbes.com for his research, "Making Robots More Like Us." March 2009: Mark Yim received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in the MEAM Department. March 2009: Katherine Kuchenbecker and William McMahan won the "Best Demonstration" of new haptic technology Award, which is sponsored by Moog, at the 2009 World Haptics Conference in Salt Lake City. Description of demonstration (.pdf) March 2009: Ben Taskar was selected to particpate on the DARPA 2009 Computer Science Study Panel. March 2009: Paulo Tabuada, GRASP alumnus, won the 2009 Donald Eckman Award. March 2009: Katherine Kuchenbecker featured on the Penn Gazette with the iTorqU, an ungrounded torque feedback device. "History Starts Here" (Cover 4). February 2009: Vijay Kumar was an invited guest on the KUOW.org 94.9FM station, speaking on aggregation. His work on engineering autonomous robots using the principles of swarming behavior gave him knowledgeable insight on the topic. February 2009: Chris Rogers' GRASP Seminar. (View) February 2009: Dr. Ruzena Bajscy, our GRASP Lab founder and CIS faculty member, received the prestigious 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute. (Read more). February 2009: Walking over loose sand is hard work, even for robots. But Dan Koditschek's team has shown that an insect-like robot can make quicker progress in sand by using a different gait from that used on hard ground. News Releases: Discovery News, Nature, Proceedings from the NAS, Science, and NewScientist. January 2009: GRASP Alumnus, Andy Hicks' catoptric work in the Philadelphia Inquirer and SCIAM: 60 second science. December 2008: Mark Yim in the Top 100 Stories of Discover Magazine, #81: Smart-Matter Robots Reassemble Themselves. December 8th, 2008: MEAM 410/510 Design of Mechatronic Systems 2008 Project Competition. ROBOCKEY - The first annual ROBOCKEY Cup Tournament with 8 student teams. November 2008: George Pappas is announced as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to design and analysis of hybrid control systems. November 2008: GRASP hosts the NSF/IUCRC Industry Day Meeting for the Center for Safety, Security and Rescue Research with participation from Drexel University, the University of Denver and the University of Minnesota along with industries such as ARL, Boeing, Dragonfly Pictures, Johnson Controls, NSF, Sandbox Innovations, USMA and Willow Garage. October 2008: Georgios Fainekos wins the 2008 Frank Anger Memorial ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Student Award (Read more). October 2008: CJ Taylor and Mark Yim's robot featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian, "It walks, crawls and re-assembles itself." September 2008: Mark Yim's presentation at Ignite Philly 2. (Watch video). September 2008: CJ Taylor and Mark Yim participate at NextFest 2008. (Video and Article with Taylor's Interview). July 2008: GRASP Newsletter Spring 08 July 2008: George Pappas and Vijay Kumar organized the 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) in Athens, Greece (press release). June 2008: Alumnus Hany Farid published an article about Digital Forensics in the June issue of Scientific American and on Science Now in the Nova Channel. June 27, 2008: GRASP students, postdocs, and faculty participated at Robotics, Science, and Systems 2008 with 5 out of 40 papers and 10 out of 200 participants. June 20, 2008: Robert Ghrist is appointed a PIK Professor at UPenn June 12, 2008: GRASP lab featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 21, 2008: Nora Ayanian wins Best Student Paper at ICRA 2008 (Pictures). May 21, 2008: GRASP Reunion at the Caltech Athenaeum during ICRA 2008 (Pictures). May 1, 2008: Haptics Open House (Pictures). May 2008, Hadas Kress-Gazit has been awarded the Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award for her contributions in developing robot planning methods using model checking and hybrid systems. May 2008, Nader Motee has been awarded the Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Award for his contributions in developing novel techniques based on operator algebras for optimal control of spatially distributed dynamic systems. May 13, 2008, Little Ben is featured on CBS-3 in, "Take a Spin with 'Little Ben'". |
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