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This new McKinney bakery sells Nutella babkas and gelato — but you better get in line early Cremcrittos offers everything from almond cream cronuts to housemade gelato, and on weekends sometimes sells out of its goods before 9:30 a.m. Cremcrittos usually sells out of its pastries by 9:30 on weekend mornings.(Courtesy Cremcrittos) For brothers Young and Mark Yim, opening their bakery in McKinney was a no-brainer. “We live in McKinney and love McKinney,” Mark Yim said. “We have been seeing how fast North Dallas has expanded, so it was an easy decision to open [here].” Their new bakery...

GRASP Lab’s coolest robot yet Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has seen any number of innovative robots walk, fly, hop, roll and otherwise propel themselves about the GRASP Lab, where he serves as Ruzena Bajcsy Director. But the lab’s latest creation is, quite literally, its coolest yet: it’s made out of ice. IceBot’s structural components are made out of ice, which could be cut and shaped to specification in remote environments. (Image: Penn Engineering Today) ModLab, Yim’s own ...

In a new study delivered to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), scientists Devin Carroll and Mark Yim from the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab have put forth a proposal to send robots partially made of frozen H2O to icy exoplanets, where they can make use of local resources to self-fix in the event of a breakdown.  Credit: The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania Their intriguing paper examines various methods of manufacturing robotic structural components from ice by employing additive and subtractive manufacturing processes, wi...

Self-repairing ice robots may be perfect for exploring other planets Shane McGlaun - Jan 7, 2021, 5:56am CST A major challenge when it comes to using robots to explore other planets is keeping them operating when there’s no way to repair them from Earth. Researchers at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have conducted what they call very preliminary work on robots made from ice that can repair themselves. The team, including Devin Carroll and Mark Yim, note they have only begun exploring the possibility of making robots from ice. Building robots from ice is a...

Spiders, Caterpillars, Dragonflies Inspire Construction Material Research The National Science Foundation awarded grants to three universities to develop new technologies and materials to be used in biomanufacturing, cyber manufacturing and eco-manufacturing. December 10, 2020 University of Pennsylvania, Rowan University Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have used geometry-based structural optimization techniques to create human-scale structures out of concrete. The researchers will mimic evolution’s approach toward minimizing the use of material while maximizing its performance...