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A six-legged robot walks in the dessert.
Research + Innovation

Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research

For decades, robots have helped researchers navigate rough terrain and explore territory nearly impossible to access otherwise. The use of robots has allowed scientists to … Read More ›

Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022
Micrograph images showing cells before and after their chromatin was reshuffled by disease.
Research + Innovation

CEMB Researchers Find that Disease Can Change the Physical Structure of Cells

Researchers from Penn’s Center for Engineering Mechanobiology (CEMB) have discovered that cells change the physical structure of their genome when they’re affected by disease.  In … Read More ›

Posted on August 26, 2022
Homa
In the News

Homa Hosseinmardi on TV, Social Media and Political Echo Chambers

Many of the concerns surrounding the impact of echo chambers — communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their … Read More ›

Posted on August 17, 2022
Saif Khawaja
Honors + Awards

Robotic Fish Harvesting Project Wins President’s Sustainability Prize

Saif Khawaja has earned one of the inaugural Penn President’s Sustainability Prize for Shinkei Systems, a robotics-based system to automate a Japanese style of fish harvest … Read More ›

Posted on August 3, 2022
Shu Yang
Honors + Awards

Shu Yang Named a 2022 Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a 2022 American … Read More ›

Posted on August 1, 2022
Students pose next to their poster
Students

‘A Cleaner, Greener Airport of the Future’

Last month, Penn’s Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club (WUAC) traveled to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to present its well-researched vision: a modular set … Read More ›

Posted on July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
Kevin Johnson
Academics

Kevin Johnson: Informatics Evangelist

Kevin Johnson is used to forging his own path in the fields of healthcare and computer science. If you ask him to locate his niche … Read More ›

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
In the News

At ICRA 2022, Penn Engineers Welcomed the World’s Roboticists to Philly

From Monday, May 23 through Friday May 27, Penn Engineering hosted the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers‘ (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation … Read More ›

Posted on June 1, 2022
Students

President’s Innovation Prize Winners Aim to Streamline the Health Care Supply Chain

In a recent article from Penn Today,  2022 President’s Innovation Prize winners Luka Yancopoulos, an environmental studies major and a bioengineering major in the School … Read More ›

Posted on May 28, 2022June 2, 2022
Research + Innovation

Soft ‘Rotini’ Robots Navigate with a Snap

Though autonomy in robotics constructed of soft materials is essential, creating autonomous  soft robots that can intelligently interact with and adapt to changing environments without … Read More ›

Posted on May 25, 2022May 31, 2022

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