A non-refundable reservation fee applies for all tours. Tours that do not reach a minimum of 20 participants may be cancelled. Transportation from the Pennsylvania Convention Center to the tour location and back is provided.
Singh Center for Nanotechnology
- Date: Thursday, May 26, 2022
- Maximum Capacity: 30
- Departure from Pennsylvania Convention Center: 09:30
- Return to Pennsylvania Convention Center: 12:30
Tour Description:
Since opening its doors in 2014, the University of Pennsylvania’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology has been a center of excellence and the first multi-disciplinary center on campus. Recognized as the Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Hub (MANTH) to promote education, research, and innovation, the Center is part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Three core facilities drive the center’s activities:
- The Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility (11,000 sqft cleanroom)
- The Scanning and Local Probe Facility
- The Nanoscale Characterization Facility
Our center welcomes academic, industry, and government researchers to access our high-end capabilities and staff expertise. To learn more, attend our event for an overview of the Center and an escorted walking tour of each core facility.
Tour Requirements:
- Vaccine, mask, and check-in via PennOpen Campus mobile app. https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/content/visitors
Penn Medicine
- Date: Friday, May 27, 2022
- Maximum Capacity: 80
- Departure from Pennsylvania Convention Center: 13:00
- Return to Pennsylvania Convention Center: 16:00
Tour Description:
This tour will feature some of Penn’s medical robotics activities. This tour features three areas at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Location. 1) The Penn Medicine Clinical Simulation Center, which houses human patient simulators and virtual reality trainers for instruction in procedural skills such as central line placement, endotracheal intubation, laparoscopic procedures, and fiberoptic endoscopy. 2) The Rehabilitation Robotics Lab (part of the GRASP Lab), including robots and mechatronic systems used to support assessment and therapy of persons with non-traumatic brain injury. 3) Conversations with therapists in the Outpatient therapy clinic who integrate robots into their outpatient settings, discussing the benefits and challenges of doing so.
Photos: https://www.uphs.upenn.edu/simcenter/about/about.html
Tour Requirements:
- Vaccine, mask, and check-in via PennOpen Campus mobile app. https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/content/visitors
Penn GRASP Lab
- Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
- Maximum Capacity: 180
- Departure from Pennsylvania Convention Center: 13:00
- Return to Pennsylvania Convention Center: 16:00
- Date: Friday, May 27, 2022
- Maximum Capacity: 150
- Departure from Pennsylvania Convention Center: 09:00
- Return to Pennsylvania Convention Center: 12:00
Tour Description:
The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory is an interdisciplinary academic and research center within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1979, the GRASP Lab is a premier robotics incubator that fosters collaboration between students, research staff and faculty focusing on fundamental research in vision, perception, control systems, automation, and machine learning.
The tour, of the Penn Engineering Research and Collaboration Hub (PERCH) campus, will include research highlights and technical demonstrations of the broad array of work done in the many groups that make up GRASP. Specific demos include robotic locomotion, swarm aerial coordination, manipulation, swimming, computer vision, and more.
Photos: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/about/facilities/
Tour Requirements:
- Vaccine, mask, and check-in via PennOpen Campus mobile app. https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/content/visitors