Cynthia Sung, head of the Sung Robotics Lab within Penn’s GRASP Lab, is especially interested in getting high school students into engineering. Self-folding origami robots, anyone? Cynthia Sung.

When you think of robots, you might picture thousands of dollars worth of equipment, high-tech computers and lots of metal. It’s strung together with four AA batteries, circuitry, actuators, a ...

More video from the GRASP lab. This time of coordinated follow my leader flight. Its time to set them free chaps. Working well indoors now lets see them out in the wild. From IEEE Spectrum Being able ...

There will soon be a new pecking order amongst the mechanized members of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory. The GRASP Lab is one of 11 ...

Penn GRASP Lab student Lilian Stoesser works on a robotic flower that is programmed to open and close in response to the music of ''Beyond the Binary.'' (Emma Lee/WHYY) This year is the 100th ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab have taught Willow Garage’s PR2 robot to identify feces based on color, confront the offending substances, and dispose of them in a ...