Quori and ‘Designs for Different Futures’ on PBS News Hour Jeffrey Brown of the PBS News Hour recently visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its … Read More ›

Knowable Magazine Q&A with Mark Yim: “Robots Designed to Self-Construct” Last year, Mark Yim, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and … Read More ›

Looking to Mud to Study How Particles Become Sticky A collaboration of geophysicists and fluids mechanics experts led to a fundamental new insight into how tiny … Read More ›

At a TED Institute Event, Marc Miskin Talks About “Tiny Robots with Giant Potential” Marc Miskin, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems … Read More ›

While genetics and biochemistry research has dominated the conversation about how human bodies are formed, new research — with an old twist — is proposing that there is another … Read More ›

Penn Engineers’ Magnetic Micro-robots Use Capillary Forces to Coax Particles into Position Shown in 4x speed, a “flower” shaped micro-robot approaches plastic beads, uses capillary forces … Read More ›

As smartphones and laptops get smaller and sleeker in design, so too do the parts that make them. Manufacturing chips and displays in an average … Read More ›

Ravi Radhakrishnan Named Chair of the Department of Bioengineering Ravi Radhakrishnan Ravi Radhakrishnan has been named Chair of the Department of Bioengineering. Radhakrishnan holds joint … Read More ›

David Meaney Named Senior Associate Dean of Penn Engineering David Meaney David F. Meaney, Solomon R. Pollack Professor of Bioengineering, has been named the Senior … Read More ›