Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research News / September 19, 2022 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 study key info about the moon and other planetary bodies, such as material makeup and water content. However, despite being uniquely equipped for the job,... Read More
CEMB Researchers Find that Disease Can Change the Physical Structure of Cells News / August 26, 2022 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 a recent study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the team detailed what they found when they closely observed the nucleus of cells inside connective tissues... Read More
Homa Hosseinmardi on TV, Social Media and Political Echo Chambers News / August 17, 2022 Many of the concerns surrounding the impact of echo chambers — communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions — focus on social media as one of the main drivers of this phenomenon. However, despite how social media has radically changed our... Read More
Robotic Fish Harvesting Project Wins President’s Sustainability Prize News / August 3, 2022 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 known as ikejime. “Saif is combining the problem-solving approach of an engineer with the market savvy expected of Wharton graduates to make the fishing industry... Read More
Shu Yang Named a 2022 Fellow of the American Chemical Society News / August 1, 2022 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 Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow. Yang, one of 45 ACS members to be named to this year’s class of fellows, also serves as the Chair of... Read More
A Cleaner, Greener Airport of the Future News / July 8, 2022 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 of technologies that could transform any airport into a greener, cleaner operation. The team, which includes Benjamin Chan, a rising sophomore in the School of... Read More
Kevin Johnson: Informatics Evangelist News / June 27, 2022 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 within these fields, Johnson, David L. Cohen and Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor with appointments in Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine, would... Read More
At ICRA 2022, Penn Engineers Welcomed the World’s Roboticists to Philly News / June 1, 2022 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 (ICRA) at the Pennovation Center and the Pennsylvania Convention Center. One of the world’s major robotics conferences, ICRA brought roughly 4,500 guests from 89 countries... Read More
President’s Innovation Prize Winners Aim to Streamline the Health Care Supply Chain News / May 28, 2022 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 of Engineering and Applied Science and William Danon, a history major, discussed how the company and partnership came to be, how the software works and... Read More
Soft ‘Rotini’ Robots Navigate with a Snap News / May 25, 2022 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 external controls remains challenging. Such robots usually require a soft, brain-like command center that integrates on-board sensing, control, computation, and decision-making. In a recent paper... Read More
