Senator Dave McCormick (second from left) and Andrew Hanna (left) observing Hanna’s robotic system for rapidly formulating large numbers of lipid nanoparticles.
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Inside NSF AIRFoundry, Senator McCormick gets a look at the future of RNA discovery
A visit to Penn’s Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA BioFoundry gave U.S. Senator Dave McCormick a firsthand look at how federal investment in science translates into shared research infrastructure, student training, and regional economic development.
In a new paper, researchers at Penn Engineering highlight the need to develop more thorough frameworks for ensuring that AI-enabled robots embody a “do no harm” core principle.
Nhlanhla Mavuso of Fluid Silicon at work in the Moore Building.
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Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently
Fluid Silicon, a platform from President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso, allows computer chips to continuously monitor their health and self-tune as their characteristics change. The technology has the potential to reduce energy usage in data centers and improve reliability in mission-critical applications.
Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team fine-tuning their robot at Tangen Hall.
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A robotic solution for safer tree trimming
Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team have leveraged Penn resources to create a tree-cutting robot, improving safety in a dangerous industry. The President’s Innovation Prize allows Zhu to iterate and pilot the device over the next year.
A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built CAMEL, an artificial intelligence model that forecasts dangerous cardiac rhythms before they strike. Their findings pave the way for a new era of real-time, predictive heart care.
Using AI to surface unreported GLP-1 side effects in Reddit posts
Researchers at Penn Engineering have identified patient-reported symptoms associated with GLP-1s in 400,000 posts from 70,000 user sand highlighted two main classes of symptoms that warrant further study.
Lingjie Liu: Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
Lingjie Liu of the School of Engineering and Applied Science uses AI both as a subject of research and as a core methodology for building new 3D visual computing systems.
Ph.D. student Hongrui Zheng (left), and Rahul Mangaharam, ESE professor and principal investigator of xLAB, with the drones used in this research.
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A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
Researchers at Penn’s xLAB are collaborating on a multiyear project to study how large teams of physical AI agents can cooperate, compete, and act safely outside of software and in the real world.
Beyond algorithms: Engineering judgment in the age of AI
Penn professor Justin “Gus” Hurwitz helps students build “engineering judgment” to better inform AI innovation. This skill involves thoughtfully balancing the trade-offs between technical choices, legal obligation, and moral responsibility.
Shujie Yang is at the frontier of single-cell acoustic manipulation, an emerging field that blends physics, mechanobiology, and medicine.
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Shujie Yang harnesses sound to build the next generation of microrobotic medicine
Yang’s lab at Penn Engineering uses precisely-controlled ultrasound waves to develop microscale tools that can manipulate cells, viruses, and soft materials without physical contact.
