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Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface. (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso)
In the News, Research + Innovation

Teaching Doglike Robots to Walk on the Moon’s Dusty, Icy Surface

At an elevation of around 6,000 feet near Mount Hood, located roughly 70 miles east of Portland, an interdisciplinary team comprising members from the University … Read More ›

Posted on April 12, 2024
vortex structures colored with the Reynolds shear stress, a marker of turbulence production, which can show high regions (red) of turbulence producing motions behind the dunes and low (blue) as they flow over top.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Uncover Universal Structure in Turbulent Air Flows Over Dune Fields

Penn Engineers have uncovered an unexpected universal pattern in how turbulent airflows behave over natural dune fields, offering insights into one of the most perplexing … Read More ›

Posted on April 11, 2024
A virtual space created by holodeck, which resembles an apartment.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Recreate Star Trek’s Holodeck Using ChatGPT and Video Game Assets

Using everyday language, users can prompt Holodeck to generate a virtually infinite variety of 3D spaces, which creates new possibilities for training robots to navigate … Read More ›

Posted on April 11, 2024April 9, 2024
Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth sit side-by-side in front of a blackboard covered in math- and computer science-related notes.
Academics, Research + Innovation

The Science of Designing Ethical Algorithms: Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth on Ethical AI

In your 2019 book The Ethical Algorithm, you make clear that computer scientists have largely focused on designing the algorithms that power artificial intelligence to … Read More ›

Posted on April 10, 2024April 9, 2024
Picture of an earthquake richter scale
In the News

Understanding the Northeast Earthquake

Last week, people in the Northeast, including many at Penn, experienced an unusual disruption to their day as the ground beneath and walls around started … Read More ›

Posted on April 9, 2024
Photo of student Jason Ma
Honors + Awards, Students

Yecheng (Jason) Ma Named Apple Scholar in AIML

Yecheng (Jason) Ma, a fourth-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been … Read More ›

Posted on April 8, 2024
Five young men hold a red and white buoy in front of a Jamaican beach.
Students

A Return to Jamaica Brings Seven Student-Invented Devices to Help People and Wildlife

Penn students have been building their knowledge and hands-on experience in places all over the world through Penn Global Seminars. Last May, “Robotics and Rehabilitation” … Read More ›

Posted on April 5, 2024April 5, 2024
A portrait of Pratik Chaudhari, wearing a dark polo shirt and with a dark glass board with mathematical notation behind him.
Research + Innovation

Building Robots that Learn: Pratik Chaudhari Investigates the Underpinnings of AI

Growing up, Pratik Chaudhari, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, just … Read More ›

Posted on April 4, 2024
A group of Penn students in front of College Hall posing with the new electric racecar.
Events, In the News

Unveiling REV 9, Penn Electric Racing’s Latest Race Car

A crowd filled with curious, eager faces gathered on College Green to see the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Penn Electric Racing (PER) team … Read More ›

Posted on April 4, 2024
Academics, Research + Innovation

Chris Callison-Burch Talks Empowering Tomorrow’s AI Engineers

Through programs like the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence, the first Ivy League undergraduate degree of its kind, Penn Engineering is addressing … Read More ›

Posted on April 3, 2024April 3, 2024

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