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Penn Engineering Receives Largest Research Grant in School History to Lead Robotics Consortium

Penn Engineering Receives Largest Research Grant in School History to Lead Robotics Consortium

  PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received the largest single award in the School’s 156-year history to help create the fundamental networks and technologies that will put unmanned machines on the front lines of battle.

Jordan Reese

Penn Robotics Lab Receives $5 Million Grant to Develop Robot Swarms from MARS

Penn Robotics Lab Receives $5 Million Grant to Develop Robot Swarms from MARS

PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas from the ground and sky.   

Greg Lester

The science of motion
Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion, plate 631, depicting the thoroughbred bay horse, Bouquet, c. 1887.

Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion, plate 631, depicting the thoroughbred bay horse, Bouquet, c. 1887. 

(Image: University of Pennsylvania Archives)

The science of motion

Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion,” part of the Muybridge collection at Penn, is one of the earliest attempts to use photography as a scientific tool.

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