Congratulations to Gabe for receiving the 2025 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, a university-wide honor, as well as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award in Mechanical Engineering for the Fall 2024 semester. Both awards were in recognition of his work in MEAM 2100: Statics and Strength of Materials, a required core course for all sophomore Mechanical Engineering students.
Read more about Gabe’s experience teaching here.
Congratulations to Christopher Kim for defending his Ph.D. thesis on “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots.” Best wishes for the next stage of your career!
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 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