Congratulations to Vijay Kumar for the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award - the highest distinction in robotics. He is a great leader and innovator, and an outstanding personality!

Large Scale Model Predictive Control with Neural Networks and Primal Active Sets deepai.org/publication/la… by Steven W. Chen et al. including Vijay Kumar #LossFunction #NeuralNetwork

Presented our work on RGB and Sparse Depth fusion - "DFuseNet" at ITSC 2019 youtube.com/watch?v=XhRelR… - at 8:30 I describe the small calibrated dataset that we collected in Philly with Ouster + Stereolabs for additional validation. GRASP Laboratory thanks to Ty, Ian & Steven Chen!

Reading "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel and came across his comparison of airlines vs Google. Anyone else think that the self driving car industry will end up like the airline industry (highly competitive)? Creates a lot of value but hard to capture it. @zerotoone @selfdriving

SLOAM: Semantic Lidar Odometry and Mapping for Forest Inventory deepai.org/publication/sl… by Steven W. Chen et al. including Vijay Kumar #Estimator #Statistics

A great start to the new decade - our work on precision agriculture by Steven Chen Elijah S. Lee Xu Li Guilherme Nardari GRASP Laboratory Penn Engineering

Excited to show off some of our recent work in robotic forestry! Video: youtu.be/V5C5MC5P8Q8 Vijay Kumar GRASP Laboratory Penn Engineering #forestry #Drones

Thank you for all your support @AlisonBLowndes! #NVIDIAInception #GTC2020

GRASP is building telemedicine carts to reduce risk to Penn Medicine specialists. The carts will replicate the functionality of commercially available carts but at a lower price and with off the shelf parts. We're deploying later this week. #coronavirus

There is one hour left to vote for the The Wharton School @WhartonEntrep Startup Challenge crowd favorite. Throw a vote to MAR Designs (Rebecca Li Ariella Mansfield & me). We are working to improve the lives of kids with cerebral palsy with a novel orthosis.

Forest surveying is an essential metric for the $500 bn global forestry industry. That’s why Trefo is introducing a novel UAV-based approach to make surveying cheaper, faster and more accurate.🌳 Read more about our investment in Trefo here: blog.dormroomfund.com/blog/under-the…

My dad sent me this view from my childhood room in Portland. It hit me that we have been wasting our collective intelligence in tech optimizing for profits and ad clicks.

Our CEO Steven Chen was interviewed by Bom Dia Brasil! 👇Watch to learn about our robotic #forestry platform for #timber cruising globoplay.globo.com/v/8802420/

Congratulations to Steven Chen, Elizabeth Hunter, Michael Shomin and Vaibhav Arcot - great article on Treeswift robots tackling world's massive carbon crisis blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut… Very proud! Penn Engineering GRASP Laboratory

Steven Chen, doctoral student in CIS, is the co-founder and CEO of Treeswift, a company using robotics and machine learning technology for forest management. Chen also wants to optimize data collection, which can aid in #climatechange initiatives. blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut…

Treeswift (Treeswift) plans to automate forestry with swarms of #drones. Learn the process behind the technology here: bit.ly/3n1Rq3p

GRASP Lab's own @Chenstew (PhD, CIS) is co-founder and CEO start-up Treeswift, a company using swarms of autonomous, flying robots equipped with light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors to survey and monitor forests. blog.seas.upenn.edu/treeswifts-aut…

Today I am leaving the US. With my family we are exploring a new life in the south of France. I’ve been in the US for more than 16 years. I earned my citizenship & experienced many ups & downs. But I am grateful. The US was good to me in many ways ... /1

"The vast forests of our national parks and timber farms have countless trees, but you can’t put 'countless' on the paperwork." 💯%! That's why our drones map forests with unprecedented accuracy + speed, while helping foresters make huge efficiency gains. Thanks TechCrunch

Check out our video on long-range GPS-denied under-canopy autonomous flight! Our quad can fly 800 m autonomously in very challenging conditions while performing real-time semantic SLAM. Great work by Xu Liu, Guilherme Nardari, Steven Chen, Vijay Kumar, et al. youtu.be/Ad3ANMX8gd4