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Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa on robots in the real world
Illustration of Michael Posa.

Michael Posa is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering Today)

Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa on robots in the real world

With funding from the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, Posa is working on a new teaching method where robots interact with objects in the real world to build real-world intelligence via small data sets.

From Penn Engineering Today

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections
Before and after fluorescence imaging of fungal accumilations being removed by microrobots.

Candida albicans is a species of yeast that is a normal part of the human microbiota but can also cause severe infections that pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much so that the World Health Organization has highlighted this as a priority issue. The picture above shows a before (left) and after (right) fluorescence image of fungal biofilms being precisely targeted by nanozyme microrobots without bonding to or disturbing the tissue sample.

(Image: Min Jun Oh and Seokyoung Yoon)

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections

Researchers from Penn Dental and Penn Engineering have developed a nanorobot system that precisely and rapidly targets fungal infections in the mouth.
When robots touch the world
Robotic hand playing a piano.

Image: iStock/Iaremenko

When robots touch the world

Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa discusses robotics in the age of artificial intelligence, the ambulatory genius of toddlers, navigating the unfamiliar and the elegance of not learning everything.

From Penn Engineering Today

People and Places at Penn: Makerspaces
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People and Places at Penn: Makerspaces

Hands-on learning fosters creativity, creates opportunities for collaboration, and feels good. Education Commons, the Precision Machining Laboratory, and Tangen Hall all offer space for students to get their hands dirty.

Kristina Linnea García

Soft robots gain new strength
A robotic arm holding the hand of a mannequin.

In a demonstration, the clutch was able to increase the strength of an elbow joint to be able to support the weight of a mannequin arm at the low energy demand of 125 volts. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Soft robots gain new strength

Penn Engineers have developed a clutch 63 times stronger than current electroadhesive clutches, making soft robots stronger and safer and making virtual reality gloves feel more real.

From Penn Engineering Today

A relief wall that’s a window onto architecture’s future
A large two-story wall inside a library beside a staircase.

The wall is a foam construction designed using artificial intelligence and fabricated by a robot in Penn’s Robotics Lab at Meyerson Hall. (Image: Jay Kan)

A relief wall that’s a window onto architecture’s future

A public library relief wall is a novel approach to architectural design and robotic fabrication from the Weitzman School and the Robotics Lab.

From the Weitzman School of Design

People and places at Penn: Research
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People and places at Penn: Research

From Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall to the Schuylkill River, four researchers share their science and their spaces.

Kristina Linnea García