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Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99241403942?pwd=utmb7mJnRmc4z4whwVTCLr1f7Hi0UU.1 Meeting ID: 992 4140 3942 Passcode: 051736 Abstract: The transition of robot deployment beyond structured factories into homes, offices and busy urban spaces introduce compounded challenges of shifting task demands, unpredictable human motion, partial and noisy perception. Relying on a single monolithic planner to interpret observations, reason over high-level objectives, and compute […]

Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/3458894777?omn=91979093447 Meeting ID: 345 889 4777 Physical compliance enters robotic systems either by design, to yield gracefully to disturbances, or by circumstance, as a property of the environment or task itself. Often this compliance is distributed across many interacting elements, and how those elements are connected determines whether their combined effect on the robot's […]

Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93917708817 Recent advances in learning-enabled control have dramatically expanded the capabilities of autonomous systems, with applications ranging from robots and self-driving cars to industrial automation systems. However, reliable real-world deployment remains fundamentally constrained by the uncertainty in learned components, the complexity of large-scale systems, and the high cost of collecting system data. Toward addressing […]

Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92477312796 Colloidal metal nanocrystals (NCs) are chemically synthesized, nanometer-scale metal particles whose surfaces are capped with organic or inorganic ligands to provide colloidal stability and solution processability. Metal NC dispersions can serve as inks for the solution-based deposition and patterning of conductors at lower thermal budgets and over large areas compared to processes […]

Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98563756560?pwd=yXnuhaTv2V2jSOHzgiz1DujOa2Ubdw.1 Robots still have a lot to learn from animals when it comes to agile locomotion. Abstracting low-DOF dynamical models from animal locomotion and using them as control targets for robots has demonstrated impressive empirical results while often facilitating formal performance guarantees. However, implementations of this approach have historically tended to restrict their […]

Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a route to sustain semiconductor device scaling beyond the limits of silicon, providing atomically thin, dangling-bond-free channels and a versatile platform for further device scaling and the heterogeneous integration of electronic and optoelectronic functions. The principal bottleneck to their adoption, however, is the lack of a manufacturing route that simultaneously delivers […]