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Philly hosts a robot lollapalooza, attracting 4,500 roboticists and showing off devices that fly, swim and enter the body

The glory of robots in action was on full display this week at Pennovation, the base for the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering labs and at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

University of Pennsylvania Dean for the School of Engineering & Applied Science Vijay Kumar points to a television screen using the ExynPak, a portable, real-time 3D mapping solution with survey grade accuracy, Kumar was leading a tour of the Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences of General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP) at the Pennovation Center on Monday, May 23, 2022. Penn is hosting the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and other sites this week.
University of Pennsylvania Dean for the School of Engineering & Applied Science Vijay Kumar points to a television screen using the ExynPak, a portable, real-time 3D mapping solution with survey grade accuracy, Kumar was leading a tour of the Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences of General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP) at the Pennovation Center on Monday, May 23, 2022. Penn is hosting the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and other sites this week.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer