This year’s Penn Y-Prize competition featured novel technologies developed by members of the GRASP Lab, specifically the Sung Lab and ModLab.
We are thrilled to announce that the winner of this year’s Penn Y-Prize was Stentix! Their project, which utilized the MORF Technology developed in the Sung Lab, proposed a stent that can be adjusted noninvasively.
Congratulations to the entire Stentix team for your hard work and dedication!
Our recently submitted paper “MORF: Magnetic Origami Reprogamming and Folding System for Repeatably Reconfigurable Structures with Enhanced Fold Angle Control” has been accepted for publication at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (2025 ICRA). Congratulations to the authors, Gabriel Unger, Sridhar Shenoy, Tianyu Li, Nadia Figueroa, and Cynthia Sung, for this exciting new research!
Springer has just published a Handbook on Soft Robotics. Thank you to Thrishantha Nanayakkara for including us with a chapter on Origami Robots! There will be a public meeting on April 30, 2025, at 5:30pm London time to discuss what is covered in the book and how to improve it in the future.
The book can be found at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68620-7
Our recently submitted paper “Effect of Jet Coordination on Underwater Propulsion with the Multi-Robot SALP System” has been accepted for publication at the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025). Congratulations to the authors, Zhiyuan Yang, Yipeng Zhang, Matthew Herbert, M. Ani Hsieh, and Cynthia Sung, for this exciting new research!
Congratulations to Brianna Leung for presenting her poster at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Annual Meeting in Maryland!
Brianna’s work “Mechanical characterization of an origami-inspired multistable tube for reconfigurable implants” introduces the design and characterization of an origami medical device. An exciting contribution to mechanics and bio-medical devices!