How can many robots work together effectively to collect information about the environment? This is a question Victoria Edwards, a fifth-year doctoral student in MEAM, is working to solve using complex systems theory. Watch the full video:

How can robots recover from sandy traps on the Moon? The TRUSSES Project, led by Cynthia Sung, unites @PennEngineers & @USC researchers. At White Sands National Park, TRUSSES joined LASSIE to test multirobot systems that map hazards & climb dunes in a simulated lunar environment.

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RT @PennEngineers: Dean @Vijay_r_Kumar recently spoke with Ben Kaplan of Deep Venture Partners about the future of robotics. The two explor….

Congratulations Jake Welde who defended his dissertation, “Geometric Methods for Efficient and Explainable Control of Underactuated Robotic Systems." His research uses geometric structure to design faster, more general, and more robust robot controllers—both analytic and learned.

RT @PennEngineers: Recently, Professor Douglas Jerolmack (@meam_penn) spoke to @telemundochi about the "magic" mud applied to baseballs in….

RT @PennEngineers: A new discovery at Penn challenges decades of research on blood clots. A team of researchers found that red blood cells,….

Congratulations Yan Luo, who defended her dissertation, "Mechanical Robust Biocompatible Polymeric Networks for Repetitive Loading.". Luo's work fuses shape-memory collagen cryogels with ionic alginate to create tunable hydrogels that endure and recover under cyclic loading.

Samantha McBride and Nathan Wei have been named Environmental Innovations Initiative Faculty Fellows, a two-year collaboration with a focus on lithium recovery from waste brines and investigating extreme heat's impact on urban communities. 🌎.

RT @PennEngineers: New @MEAM_Penn research from Robert Carpick's lab, with Cangyu Qu & Lu Fang, developed a model predicting how mechanical….

RT @PennEngineers: Discover the story of Ralph Teetor, a blind @MEAM_Penn alumnus who invented cruise control. His life of innovation is no….

Congratulations Gregory Campbell for defending his dissertation, “Elastomeric Strain Limitation for Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators." . Campbell will be starting a new chapter at @LafCol as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Congratulations Julia Radzio, MEAM doctoral student, for receiving the Best Poster Award from the @GordonConf on the Physics and Chemistry of Micro-fluidics. Radzio presented a summary of her work on a stiffness-based droplet sorting platform for biodegradable enzyme screening.

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RT @PennEngineers: Inspired by nature, Penn Engineers are teaching robotic swarms to build like bees, without a central plan. Jordan Raney….

Discover Loraine Terrell’s new comic, illustrated by Dan Lee, in @pennsas OMNIA magazine—where Doug Jerolmack’s application of physics reveals how river sediment transforms a baseball’s grip. ⚾ . Read the full issue here:

RT @PennEngineers: Congratulations to Julia Dase (MSE’25), Ainsley Rexford (MEAM’25), Jonathan Wu (ESE’25) & Lizzie He (M&T’25) on graduati….

The MEAM Summer Seminar Series starts this week with Yasaman Moharrer, a MEAM PhD Candidate working with Joel Boerckel. "The Role of YAP and TAZ in Regulating Mechanical Load-induced Bone Adaptation and Osteocytes Mechanosensing". June 3 at 10:15 AM.

Celebrating our Class of 2025, congratulations to @ArratiaPaulo on being named a Society of Rheology Fellow, discover Aurora — a new machine learning model for Earth systems forecasting, plus an alumni Q&A and more. Read the June newsletter:.

RT @PennEngineers: The Penn Engineering Class of 2025 steps into the future with the power to drive change. Watch highlights from the under….

RT @MichaelAPosa: It was great to end ICRA with some fantastic workshops, and the news that Penn has approved my tenure! I owe much to my f….

Mitchell Fogelson, @fogmb, (ENG’17, GEN’18) tests deployable space structures in microgravity on a NASA-funded Zero-G flight. His hands-on innovation began at Penn Engineering, and he now leads Beyond Reach Labs, creating tech for remote environments.