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!