https://curf.upenn.edu/about-us/student-news/More-Than-Just-Robotics-Research

Jeffrey Oduman (CS BSE ’28) has been working in our lab on gradient descent of 3D Dubins paths as part of the Kinegami project. His work was supported by the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF). His reflections on this experience were recently featured on the CURF’s blog!

Benjamin Aziel (MEAM MSE): Outstanding Academics

Jingshuo Li (MEAM MSE): Honorable Mention for Outstanding Research

Neel Mulay (MEAM MSE): Honorable Mention for Outstanding Service

We were delighted to have Erin Boyle as an Artist in Residence in our lab in summer 2025, when she developed a series of actuated origami sculptures and installations and then showed them at an exhibit and teaching workshop at The Arts League this January-February. Jillian Mallon wrote about this for GRASP News: Dancing Through Life: From Origami Robotics to Sculptural Art.

Brianna Leung is heading to Stanford for a PhD in Bioengineering! The 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardees were just announced: https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do