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Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Create Chip That Can Process and Classify Nearly Two Billion Images per Second

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an important role in many systems, from predictive text to medical diagnoses. Inspired by the human brain, many AI systems are … Read More ›

Posted on June 1, 2022June 1, 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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Research + Innovation

Center for Engineering Mechanobiology 2.0: Developing ‘Mechanointelligence’

The National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center (STC) program is its flagship funding mechanism for organizing interdisciplinary research on cutting-edge topics. Penn’s Center for … Read More ›

Posted on May 23, 2022
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Develop a New Method that Could Enable a Patient’s Own Antibodies to Eliminate Their Tumors

One of the reasons that cancer is notoriously difficult to treat is that it can look very different for each patient. As a result, most … Read More ›

Posted on May 20, 2022
Students

Congratulations to the Penn Engineering Graduates of 2022!

Penn Engineering held its first in-person Commencement in three years, celebrating our 2022 graduates with ceremonies at Irvine Auditorium and the Palestra. Students, family, friends … Read More ›

Posted on May 18, 2022
Robotic flowers designed and built by GRASP Lab students for a choral performance called "Beyond the Binary"
In the News

Interactive Robots Star in Interdisciplinary Choral Performance

The rise of technology is both exciting and daunting as it has positive and negative implications on our society. One field that stirs up particularly … Read More ›

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Angelina Heyler
Students

A Passion for Addressing ‘Meaningful Causes’ with Data

Angelina Heyler, a senior from Hong Kong, came to Penn to pursue a degree in engineering in a setting with opportunities for personal and academic … Read More ›

Posted on May 12, 2022
Vaclav Vitek
Honors + Awards

Vaclav Vitek Elected to the Royal Society

Vaclav Vitek, professor emeritus in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been elected to the Royal Society, … Read More ›

Posted on May 10, 2022

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