Penn Engineers 3D Print Smart Objects with ‘Embodied Logic’

New Partnership Seeks to Advance MechanoBiology Research

Engineering with Kirigami

Treating Spinal Pain with Replacement Discs Made of ‘Engineered Living Tissue’ Moves Closer to Reality

Nanowerk on Nanotribological Printing

Nanotribological printing is anew kind of additive manufacturing technique developed by Robert Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and Harman Khare, a member of his lab.

Wall Street Journal’s ‘Moving Upstream’ on Autonomous Flight

The Wall Street Journal’s docu-series “Moving Upstream” takes a closer look at disruptive technologies that are changing the way we live, work and communicate. Topics in its second season include gene editing, cryptocurrencies, and the deceptive videos known as “Deepfakes.” For its latest episode, “The Future of Flight: AI in the Cockpit,” host Jason Bellini visited PERCH to […]

Promoting Innovative, Reproducible Science: Penn’s Research Excellence Initiative

Penn Engineers Discover New Cellular ‘Elevator’ That’s Controlled by Light

Penn Engineers’ Liquid Crystal Force Fields Enable New Kind of Microrobotics

A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows how simple glass particles can be instructed to follow sophisticated trajectories, which arise from their interactions with a liquid crystalline environment. The study was led by Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, former Stebe lab member Francesca Serra, […]

Linguistic Red Flags from Facebook Posts Can Predict Future Depression Diagnoses

Research from the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health and the World Well-Being Project marries social media data with medical-outcomes data for the first time.