What It Will Take To Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer |
The effort to “align” AI with human values is falling dangerously short in robotic systems, according to researchers from Penn Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford.
In a recent paper in Science Robotics, the researchers highlight the need to develop more thorough frameworks for ensuring that AI-enabled robots embody a core principle famously articulated by science fiction author Isaac Asimov: “A robot may not injure a human being.”
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From Lab to Launch: How Vanessa Chan Is Training Ph.D. Engineers for Real-World Impact |
What does it take to move from a promising thesis to a real-world solution? In EAS5500: Applying your Thesis to the Real World, Vanessa Chan is teaching engineering Ph.D. students how to evaluate market, policy, manufacturing and adoption challenges and bring their research out of the lab.
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Meet Penn Engineering’s First Graduates in AI |
Penn Engineering’s first AI majors came to the program with interests ranging from computer vision to ethics and data privacy. Prior to graduation, they shared how the major challenged them to think more deeply about AI’s role in the world.
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Penn launches $18 million facility to advance RNA technology’s role in health, agriculture
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and AIRFoundry Director, highlights how the new facility in Philadelphia will leverage AI to improve, accelerate and scale the design, manufacture and delivery of RNA-based technologies at Penn and beyond. Read More
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AI tool could speed antibiotic development
National Institutes of Health
An NIH-funded team led by Penn Engineering faculty collaborators Jacob Gardner and César de la Fuente developed a tool that uses AI to design promising peptides to test in the laboratory. Read More
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Michael Pignatelli (ENG'27, C'27, GEng'28), pictured far right, is one of the first Penn Engineering students in the Bologna Consortial Studies Program in Bologna, Italy. So far, his trip has been more than an academic experience: He's exploring Italian culture, strengthening his language skills and reconnecting with his family's roots.
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What year was Penn’s School of Mines, Arts, and Manufactures (the precursor to the modern-day Penn Engineering) formally established?
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A. 1850
B. 1852
C. 1875
D. 1973
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🗣️ Last month’s trivia was answered correctly by Mia Zuo (GEng’26) who said that the newest program to have graduates in 2026 was the BSE in AI.
Email your answers to info@seas.upenn.edu for a chance to be featured in the next newsletter.
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