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    <title>Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics</title>
    <link>http://www.me.upenn.edu/</link>
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       <title>MEAM Student Project is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Instant strength from the Titan Arm"</title>
       <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130602_Instant_strength_from_the_Titan_Arm.htmls</link> 
       <description>June 4, 2013</description>
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       <title>Penn Haptics is featured in IEEE Spectrum's "Finally: Robots Learn What 'Squishy' Really Means"</title>
       <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/finally-robots-learn-what-squishy-really-means</link> 
       <description>May 14, 2013</description>
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       <title>CNN features GRASP Quadrotors in "Tiny flying robots! Meet the quadrotor"</title>
       <link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/tech/innovation/flying-robots-quadrotors/</link> 
       <description>May 2, 2013</description>
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       <title>Video: MEAM Senior Design Project is featured in "TitanArm exoskeleton prototype makes light work of heavy lifting"</title>
       <link>http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/01/upenn-titanarm-exoskeleton/</link> 
       <description>May 2, 2013</description>
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       <title>Research by Paulo Arratia is featured in "New Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia"</title>
       <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430142102.htm</link> 
       <description>May 2, 2013</description>
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       <title>Vijay Kumar comments on robotics research in "NSF Program Aims to Democratize Robot Manufacturing"</title>
       <link>http://www.roboticstrends.com/consumer_education/article/nsf_program_aims_to_democratize_robot_manufacturing</link> 
       <description>April 26, 2013</description>
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       <title>Discovery News features haptics research by Katherine Kuchenbecker in "Tech Gets 'Touchy-Feely' With Haptic Engineering"</title>
       <link>http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/tech-gets-touchy-feely-haptics-130419.htm</link> 
       <description>April 22, 2013</description>
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       <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker is featured for her TED talk about haptography in "Watch: The technology of touch"</title>
       <link>http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/watch-the-technology-of-touch</link> 
       <description>April 18, 2013</description>
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       <title>GRASP is featured on CNN Money for possible applications of flying robots in "Cheap drones could save your life"</title>
       <link>http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/10/technology/innovation/cheap-drones/index.html?iid=HP_LN</link> 
       <description>April 11, 2013</description>
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       <title>ModLab's CKbot is featured in "Self-Assembled Devices May Transform Manufacturing"</title>
       <link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&amp;doc_id=261138</link> 
       <description>April 4, 2013</description>
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       <title>PopSci shows GRASP Quadrotor "Fly Like A Drone And Fish Like An Eagle"</title>
       <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/watch-quadrotor-fly-drone-fish-eagle</link> 
       <description>March 20, 2013</description>
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       <title>Vijay Kumar comments on GRASP Research in "Printable robots designed to be consumer-friendly, inexpensive"</title>
       <link>http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=29583.php</link> 
       <description>March 20, 2013</description>
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       <title>ModLab's Robotic Boats are featured in "Imagine an Aircraft Carrier Made Out of ... Robots"</title>
       <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/02/imagine-an-aircraft-carrier-made-out-of-robots/273580/</link> 
       <description>February 28, 2013</description>
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       <title>Vijay Kumar's Swarm Robotics research is featured in "Rise of the Swarm"</title>
       <link>http://cacm.acm.org/news/161195-rise-of-the-swarm/fulltext</link> 
       <description>February 22, 2013</description>
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       <title>IEEE Spectrum features research by Mark Yim in "Floating Robotic Shipping Containers Team Up to Create Islands and Runways"</title>
       <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/floating-robotic-shipping-containers-team-up-to-create-islands-and-runways/?utm_source=roboticsnews&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=021913</link> 
       <description>February 19, 2013</description>
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       <title>Research by Paulo Arratia is featured in "Focus: Blood Plasma is Not So Normal"</title>
       <link>http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/18</link> 
       <description>February 19, 2013</description>
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       <title>Mark Yim's robotic boats are featured in "Swimming-pool ships make waves in modular robotics"</title>
       <link>http://phys.org/news/2013-02-swimming-pool-ships-modular-robotics-video.html</link> 
       <description>February 13, 2013</description>
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       <title>Research by Paulo Arratia is featured in "Blood plasma not so simple after all"</title>
       <link>http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/physics_update/blood_plasma_not_so_simple_after_all</link> 
       <description>February 7, 2013</description>
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       <title>Research by Mark Yim's lab is featured in "Engineers design boat robots in Pottruck pool"</title>
       <link>http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/02/engineers-design-robot-boats-in-pottruck-pool</link> 
       <description>February 6, 2013</description>
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       <title>Video: Paulo Arratia's research is featured in "The Complexity of Fluids"</title>
       <link>http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/media/2013/02/video-the-complexity-of-fluids</link> 
       <description>February 6, 2013</description>
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       <title>Research from Tevis Jacobs and Robert Carpick shows mechanism behind wear at the atomic scale</title>
       <link>http://phys.org/news/2013-01-mechanism-atomic-scale.html</link> 
       <description>January 30, 2013</description>
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	   <title>Video: Vijay Kumar is interviewed about drone technology in "Rise of the Drones"</title>
	   <link>http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/happening-now/index.html#/v/2114345456001/new-frontiers-of-drone-technology/?playlist_id=86919</link>
       <description>January 25, 2013</description>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar comments in "'Nova' explores drones' use in war, surveillance"</title>
	   <link>http://www.dailynews.com/lalife/ci_22409767/nova-explores-drones-use-war-surveillance</link>
       <description>January 22, 2013</description>
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	   <title>Video: "Robockey at Penn" features six combatants, one puck, and the violent clash of metal on metal</title>
	   <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/health/183340581.html</link>
       <description>December 18, 2012</description>
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	   <title>MEAM's Robockey is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Slapshot bots"</title>
	   <link>http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-17/news/35871242_1_program-robots-students-electronics-and-mechanics</link>
       <description>December 18, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Video: Robert Carpick's research is featured in "Advances in Nanoscale Friction"</title>
	   <link>https://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/media/2012/11/video-advances-in-nanoscale-friction</link>
       <description>December 5, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Sarah Rottenberg discusses the design marketplace in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Vintage bottle opener is a lesson in product design"</title>
	   <link>http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-01/news/35512826_1_bottle-opener-products-laundry-room</link>
       <description>December 4, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Robert Carpick and Tevis Jacobs collaborate to improve nano-manufacturing with nanometer-scale diamond tip</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-research-helps-improve-nano-manufacturing-nanometer-scale-diamond-tip</link>
       <description>November 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Jonathan Fiene is profiled in the Penn Current's Q&amp;A</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2012-11-15/interviews/staff-qa-jonathan-fiene</link>
       <description>November 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar's TED Talk "Robots that fly...and cooperate" is one of Bill Gates' 13 Favorite Talks</title>
	   <link>http://www.ted.com/playlists/35/bill_gates_my_13_favorite_tal.html</link>
       <description>November 15, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker's haptics research featured on Inside NOVA's "Augumented Reality With a Sense of Touch"</title>
	   <link>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/2012/11/augumented-reality-with-a-sense-of-touch.html</link>
       <description>November 15, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Carpick Research Group collaborates to improve nanomanufacturing with "Nanometer-scale Diamond Tips" </title>
	   <link>http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112731870/nano-manufacturing-improved-diamond-tips-111412/</link>
       <description>November 15, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Video: Mark Yim in "Current Trends and Challenges in Modular Robotics"</title>
	   <link>https://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/media/2012/11/video-current-trends-challenges-modular-robotics</link>
       <description>November 9, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar named one of "The Smartest People in Philadelphia" by Philadelphia Magazine</title>
	   <link>http://www.phillymag.com/articles/smartest-people-philadelphia/</link>
       <description>October 31, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Mark Yim comments in "Baxter the Robot Works for $22k, No Bathroom Breaks Required"</title>
	   <link>http://www.technewsworld.com/story/emerging-tech/76223.html</link>
       <description>September 24, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Heather Culbertson, doctoral student in MEAM, is interviewed in "Haptography and the Science of Touchscreen Texture"</title>
	   <link>http://www.displayalliance.com/interviews/2012/9/18/haptography-and-the-science-of-touchscreen-texture-interview.html</link>
       <description>September 24, 2012</description>
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	   <title>MEAM bicycle bridge tour featured in "Engineering students bike to study bridges"</title>
	   <link>http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/09/engineering-students-bike-to-study-bridges</link>
       <description>September 10, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Noam Lior quoted in "China's Underground Race for Shale Gas"</title>
	   <link>http://www.knowledgeatwharton.com.cn/index.cfm?fa=article&amp;articleid=2638&amp;languageid=1</link>
       <description>May 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker quoted in "Magic touch: haptics at the man-machine interface"</title>
	   <link>http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/medical-and-healthcare/in-depth/magic-touch-haptics-at-the-man-machine-interface/1012755.article</link>
       <description>May 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Dan Mellinger featured in "Job prospects and quality of life key to retaining top talent"</title>
	   <link>http://www.thepilot.com/news/2012/may/20/job-prospects-and-quality-of-life-key-to/</link>
       <description>May 22, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Rajeev Alur and Vijay Kumar comment in "Printable robots? NSF is funding Penn research"</title>
	   <link>http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/print-edition/2012/05/18/printable-robots-nsf-is-funding-penn.html?page=all</link>
       <description>May 18, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP featured in The New Yorker's "Here's Looking at You"</title>
	   <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/14/120514fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all</link>
       <description>May 15, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP Quadrotors in "Penn Researchers Aim High With Robots That Fly, Swarm"</title>
	   <link>http://news.investors.com/article/610594/201205071825/swarms-of-flying-robots-shows-promise.htm</link>
       <description>May 8, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Video: Nathan Michael speaks in "Things That Will Change the World"</title>
	   <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/05/things-that-will-change-the-world.html</link>
       <description>May 3, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Q&amp;A: Vijay Kumar, co-creator of the famous flying robot swarm</title>
	   <link>http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-vijay-kumar-co-creator-of-the-famous-flying-robot-swarm/8049</link>
       <description>May 1, 2012</description>
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	   <title>PopSci features Vijay Kumar in "Rough Sketch: 'I Build Flying Robots'"</title>
	   <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/future-helicopter-techonogy-today</link>
       <description>May 1, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP's Haptics Group featured in "Are You Ready For A New Sensation?"</title>
	   <link>http://www.citypaper.net/cover_story/2012-04-19-grasp-labs-haptographic-robots.html</link>
       <description>April 20, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Fast Company features "The Startup Incubator For Robot Overlords: GRASP"</title>
	   <link>http://www.fastcompany.com/1834349/whos-next-grasp-laboratory</link>
       <description>April 17, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP Collaboration featured in "Printable Robots: MIT Project Wants to Let You Design and Fabricate Your Own Machines"</title>
	   <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/printable-robots-mit-project</link>
       <description>April 4, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Mark Yim featured in "Penn profs star in Science Festival's 'Superheroes'"</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2012-03-29/latest-news/penn-profs-star-science-festival%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98superheroes%E2%80%99</link>
       <description>March 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Video: Haptic photography research at Penn develops images that can be both seen and physically felt</title>
	   <link>http://www.patexia.com/feed/video-haptic-photography-research-at-upenn-develops-images-that-can-be-both-seen-and-physically-felt-3500</link>
       <description>March 27, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar's talk, "Robots that Fly...And Cooperate," featured in "The Seven Best TED Talks So Far This Year"</title>
	   <link>http://brisbane.concreteplayground.com.au/news/52787/the-seven-best-ted-talks-so-far-this-year-.htm</link>
       <description>March 23, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Video: Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in "Touch Photography: Capturing The Feel Of Surfaces"</title>
	   <link>http://science360.gov/obj/video/00436d82-0f5c-4c9c-b425-d5498aefb662</link>
       <description>March 23, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP Quadrotors featured in the Wall Street Journal's "Week in Ideas"</title>
	   <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577263320286138892.html</link>
       <description>March 12, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Quadrotors featured in Slate's "I Love You, Killer Robots"</title>
	   <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/quadrotor_drones_are_amazing_and_cute_and_they_will_probably_destroy_us_all_.single.html</link>
       <description>March 7, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP Quadrotors featured in "Penn's flying robots generate their own unique sound"</title>
	   <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20120301_Penn_s_flying_robots_generate_their_own_unique_sound.html</link>
       <description>March 1, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar presents GRASP Quadrotors at the TED2012 Conference</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-quadrotors-ted</link>
       <description>February 29, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Robert Carpick collaborates to nanomanufacture a wear-resistant carbide tip</title>
	   <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/super-wearresistant-afm-tip-pushes-the-boundries-of-nanomanufacturing</link>
       <description>February 14, 2012</description>
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	   <title>GRASP's Autonomous quadrocopters fly in 20-strong formation</title>
	   <link>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/01/quadrocopter-swarm</link>
       <description>February 1, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Robockey featured in IEEE Spectrum's "Robockey Cup Looks Like Fun, Even At Night"</title>
	   <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/upenns-robockey-cup-looks-like-fun-even-at-night</link>
       <description>January 26, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Robotic hockey teams face-off at Penn Engineering</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2012-01-26/latest-news/robotic-hockey-teams-faceoff-penn-engineering</link>
       <description>January 26, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Haptic Belt featured in Times of India's "Connect the Dots"</title>
	   <link>http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&amp;Source=Page&amp;Skin=TOINEW&amp;BaseHref=CAP/2012/01/16&amp;ViewMode=GIF&amp;PageLabel=36&amp;EntityId=Ar03500&amp;AppName=1</link>
       <description>January 17, 2012</description>
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	   <title>ALPHA Bike featured in "Core77 2011 Year in Review: The Cycling Movement Gains Momentum"</title>
	   <link>http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/core77_2011_year_in_review_the_cycling_movement_gains_momentum_21393.asp</link>
       <description>January 5, 2012</description>
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	   <title>Noam Lior comments in "Is China's Solar Industry Heading for an Eclipse?"</title>
	   <link>http://us.industrysourcing.com/Page/VerticalSites/news.aspx?id=250643</link>
       <description>December 9, 2011</description>
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	   <title>GRASP's quadrotors featured in "Real life 'construction' quadcopter robots being developed"</title>
	   <link>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/107217-real-life-constructicon-quadcopter-robots-being-developed</link>
       <description>December 5, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Robert Carpick leads collaboration to "Demonstrate Earthquake Friction Effect at the Nanoscale"</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-and-brown-researchers-demonstrate-earthquake-friction-effect-nanoscale</link>
       <description>November 30, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Image: Mike Garcia, Gabriel Juarez and Paulo Arratia show the "Trapping of a Red Blood Cell Inside a Fluid Filament"</title>
	   <link>http://www.aps.org/units/dfd/pressroom/gallery/garcia11.cfm</link>
       <description>November 14, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Science Fellow spotlight: Katherine Kuchenbecker</title>
	   <link>http://poptech.org/blog/science_fellow_spotlight_katherine_kuchenbecker.html</link>
       <description>October 27, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Fourth annual festival showcases mechanical engineers' games</title>
	   <link>http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/10/4th_annual_grand_gaming_festival_hosts_playtime_for_mechanical_engineers_games</link>
       <description>October 25, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Video: GRASP's Quadrotor robots featured on "Penn and Teller"</title>
	   <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTj-hYAnt1U</link>
       <description>October 24, 2011</description>
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	   <title>PopSci features GRASP's Foambot, which "Creates Itself Out of Sprayable Foam, Becoming Whatever Robot You Need"</title>
	   <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/foambot-creates-itself-out-sprayable-foam-becoming-whatever-robot-you-need</link>
       <description>October 20, 2011</description>
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	   <title>PopSci features GRASP's PR2 Robot Learning to "Scoop Up Distasteful Matter"</title>
	   <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/grasp-lab-programs-pr2-scoop-poop</link>
       <description>October 18, 2011</description>
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	   <title>ALPHA Bike profiled in "Not Your Father's Fixie"</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0911/gaz03.html</link>
       <description>September 29, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Congressman Chaka Fattah hails Karlin Bark as "a superstar in robotics"</title>
	   <link>http://www.thestreet.com/story/11250672/1/rep-fattah-honors-award-winning-penn-woman-scientist-as-a-superstar-in-robotics-and-stem-education-success-story.html</link>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar awarded NSF grant for his project "Partnership for Innovation: Autonomous Robotic Rotorcraft for Exploration, Surveillance and Transportation (ARREST)"</title>
	   <link>http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/three_penn_research_projects_receive_nsf_funding</link>
       <description>September 13, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker interviewed for SmartPlanet's "Why design is key in haptics innovation"</title>
	   <link>http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/why-design-is-key-in-haptics-innovation/436</link>
       <description>August 22, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Novel training machine created by Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in "Wire robot yanks your golf game into shape"</title>
	   <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128255.100-wire-robot-yanks-your-golf-game-into-shape.html</link>
       <description>August 15, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker discusses her work with haptic technology and improving the use of sensory receptors in skin in "Out of Their Minds"</title>
	   <link>http://www.cbc.ca/outoftheirminds/2011/07/04/episode-2---come-to-your-senses/</link>
       <description>July 15, 2011</description>
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	   <title>Penn and Virginia Tech's "Team Darwin" wins the World Championship for the Humanoid Kid Size league at the 2011 International RoboCup competition</title>
	   <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/american-robots-dominate-robocup-2011</link>
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	   <title>Prashant Purohit's work "Electronics: Power surfing on waves" featured in Nature "News &amp; Views"</title>
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	   <title>Paulo Arratia's work "Undulatory swimming in viscoelastic fluids" featured in Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics</title>
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	   <link>http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.208101</link>
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	   <link>http://www.plantengineering.com/home/single-article/national-robotics-roundtable-applauds-president-for-robotics-initiative/be83829bb6.html</link>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar in "National Robotics Roundtable applauds President for robotics initiative"</title>
	   <link>http://www.plantengineering.com/home/single-article/national-robotics-roundtable-applauds-president-for-robotics-initiative/be83829bb6.html</link>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker in "Haptic soldiers guided by buzzing belt"</title>
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	   <title>Vijay Kumar describes his approach to teaching robots how to explore in "Robot First Responders Could Map Out a Building Before Humans Enter"</title>
	   <link>http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/robots/robot-first-responders-could-map-out-a-building-before-humans-enter</link>
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	   <title>Penn Engineering's PR2 robot learns to read, follows words anywhere</title>
	   <link>http://news.cnet.com/pr2-robot-learns-to-read-follows-words-anywhere/8301-17938_105-20065448-1.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20</link>
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	   <title>Research by Paulo Arratia in "Do Microbes Swim Faster or Slower in Elastic Fluids?"</title>
	   <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518121225.htm</link>
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	   <title>Robots investigate Levine Hall in "Rescue robots map and explore dangerous buildings"</title>
	   <link>http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/17/rescue-robots-map-and-explore-dangerous-buildings-prove-theres/</link>
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	   <title>Mark Yim collaborates in "Learning about ethics of design through 'the dark side'"</title>
	   <link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2011-05-05/latest-news/learning-about-ethics-design-through-dark-side</link>
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	   <link>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/alpha-bike-flips-from-fixed-to-free-electronically/</link>
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	   <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20110419_Taking_the_mound_at_Citizens_Bank_Park_on_Science_Day__Philliebot.html</link>
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	   <title>Mark Yim's CKBots featured in "Go reconfigure"</title>
	   <link>http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/04/16/5449390.htm</link>
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	   <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofpennsylvania/sets/72157626435861000/</link>
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	   <title>Noam Lior comments on "U.S. Energy Policy after Japan: If Not Nuclear, Then What?"</title>
	   <link>http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2743</link>
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	   <title>GRASP Lab's use of Robot Operating System (ROS) spotlighted in "Cooperation Leads To Smarter Robots"</title>
	   <link>http://electronicdesign.com/article/embedded/Cooperation-Leads-To-Smarter-Robots.aspx</link>
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	   <title>GRASP Lab Video "Construction with Quadrotor Teams" Goes Viral</title>
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	   <title>Dean Eduardo Glandt and Katherine Kuchenbecker spotlighted in "Glandt Hitting Stride As UPenn's SEAS Continues Expansion, Innovation and Leadership"</title>
	   <link>http://www.flyingkitemedia.com/features/eduardoglandt0111.aspx</link>
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	   <title>Katherine Kuchenbecker profiled in MentorNet's "Being a Woman in Engineering is 'Fun'"</title>
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	   <link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20110103_Haptics_offer_the_sensation_of_touch_without_touching.html</link>
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	   <title>Penn Engineering Students Demonstrate State-of-the-art Haptic Human-computer and Human-machine Interfaces</title>
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	   <title>GRASP Lab Collaborates to create "DARwin – the Next Evolution in Robots"</title>
	   <link>http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/12/14/darwin-e28093-the-next-evolution-in-robots.aspx</link>
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	   <link>http://pac-10.org/News/tabid/863/Article/216519/From-Sports-To-Science--Stanford-s-Kuchenbecker.aspx?bg=/Portals/7/DigArticle/216519/Kuchenbecker-web.jpg</link>
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	   <title>"PhillyDeals: Penn's flying robots have grasped the imagination" features the origination and purpose of the quadro-rotor drone</title>
	   <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20100921_PhillyDeals__Penn_s_flying_robots_have_grasped_the_imagination.html</link>
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	   <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/business/More_bigger_Indoor_flying_searchcraft_from_the_robot_labs_at_Penn.html</link>
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	   <title>GRASP Lab's famous drone profiled in "The Quadrotor Drone Learns Several Terrifying New Tricks"</title>
	   <link>http://gizmodo.com/5639176/the-quadrotor-drone-learns-some-terrifying-new-tricks</link>
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	   <title>BotJunkie features GRASP Lab in "Quadrotors Cooperate To Lift Heavy Objects"</title>
	   <link>http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/07/12/quadrotors-cooperate-to-lift-heavy-objects/</link>
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	   <link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20100610_RoboCup_teams_worldwide_strive_to_bend_it_like_C3PO.html#axzz0qSJQgP2V</link>
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       <link>http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-06/upenns-autonomous-quadcopter-makes-navigating-tight-spaces-look-easy</link> 
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       <link> http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blogs/technology/2010/05/university_of_pennsylvania_getting_free_willow_garage_robot.html</link> 
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       <link>http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/article.cfm?articleId=2449</link> 
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       <link>http://game.blogdig.net/archives/articles/April2010/22/Student_builds_a__tactile_vest.html</link> 
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       <title>ModLab's CKBots demonstrate configuration recognition and self-assembly after an "explosion"</title>
       <link>http://linuxers.org/article/ros-modular-robotics-modlabs-ckbots</link> 
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       <link>http://www.physorg.com/news189348776.html</link> 
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       <link>http://www.toysgadget.com/gurubhakts-gesture-controlled-leader-follower-robots/robots</link> 
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       <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/tactile-gaming-vest-punches-and-slices</link> 
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       <link>http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15238.php</link> 
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       <link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/weekly/20100222_Wheelchair_on_the_go.html?viewAll=y</link> 
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       <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091020181303.htm</link> 
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