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IEEE Spectrum · September 2026

Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

Discusses RoboPAIR jailbreaking of LLM-controlled robots.

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Penn Today · April 2026

What It Will Take to Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer

Coverage of the Science Robotics article on context-aware safety for robotic foundation models.

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MIT Technology Review · February 2025

Anthropic Has a New Way to Protect Large Language Models Against Jailbreaks

Coverage of the SmoothLLM jailbreak defense.

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All Coverage

Oct 1, 2026

TechTarget Humanoid Buildup Overlooks the Robots Already Running Factories Commentary on safety and security as prerequisites for personal and humanoid robotics.

Sep 16, 2026

IEEE Spectrum Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI Discusses RoboPAIR jailbreaking of LLM-controlled robots.

May 10, 2026

Athens-Macedonian News Agency When a Robot Is Persuaded Within Minutes to Carry a Bomb (in Greek) Interview on PAIR, RoboPAIR, RoboGuard and context-aware safety for robots, also carried by the Cyprus News Agency, ERT, SKAI, Proto Thema and others.

Apr 29, 2026

Penn Today What It Will Take to Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer Coverage of the Science Robotics article on context-aware safety for robotic foundation models.

Apr 29, 2026

EurekAlert! (AAAS) What It Will Take to Make AI-Enabled Robots Safer Press release on the Science Robotics article.

Apr 14, 2026

The Daily Pennsylvanian Breaking down the Penn Engineering Futures Fund

Mar 30, 2026

The Daily Pennsylvanian Five Penn Professors Named AAAS Fellows

Nov 23, 2025

The Wire China While Politicians Fret, Unitree Is Selling Robots Across America Commentary on academic robotics research and Chinese robot manufacturers.

Nov 12, 2025

WIRED Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog Coverage of RoboGuard safety guardrails for LLM-enabled robots.

Oct 29, 2025

Communications of the ACM When Images Fool AI Models Features non-zero-sum adversarial training and RoboPAIR robot jailbreaking research.

Oct 20, 2025

National Academies Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings Coverage of the National Academies report on machine learning in safety-critical systems, which he chaired.

Jun 13, 2025

Forbes Boston Dynamics and Unitree Are Innovating Four-Legged Robots Rapidly Coverage of RoboPAIR jailbreaking research on AI-powered robots.

Mar 12, 2025

WIRED Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World Cites Penn research on jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots.

Feb 3, 2025

MIT Technology Review Anthropic Has a New Way to Protect Large Language Models Against Jailbreaks Coverage of the SmoothLLM jailbreak defense.

Feb 2, 2025

Fortune Researchers Say They Had a ‘100% Attack Success Rate’ on Jailbreak Attempts Against Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Coverage of the Cisco–Penn study of DeepSeek R1 jailbreak vulnerabilities.

Jan 31, 2025

WIRED DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot Coverage of the Cisco–Penn study of DeepSeek R1 jailbreak vulnerabilities.

Jan 31, 2025

Cisco Security Blog Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models Collaboration with Cisco and Robust Intelligence on DeepSeek R1 security vulnerabilities.

Dec 4, 2024

WIRED Researchers Developed a Way to Get AI to Attack Robots and Cause Real-World Mayhem

Nov 18, 2024

Bank Info Security It’s ‘Alarmingly Easy’ to Jailbreak LLM-Controlled Robots

Nov 11, 2024

IEEE Spectrum It’s Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots

Oct 31, 2024

Digital Trends Researchers Show That AI-Controlled Robots Can Be Jailbroken

Oct 17, 2024

The Independent AI-controlled robots can be jailbroken

Oct 17, 2024

Penn Engineering Research Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities in AI-Enabled Robots

Oct 2024

IoT Technology News Jailbreaking AI Robots — Researchers Sound Alarm Over Security Flaws

Mar 2024

Athens-Macedonian News Agency Six Greek experts on the EU AI Act (in Greek) Comments on Europe’s new AI regulation, also carried by ERT and Proto Thema.

Mar 5, 2024

The Washington Post Top AI researchers ask OpenAI, Meta and more to allow independent research Coverage of the open letter seeking a safe harbor for independent AI evaluation.

Feb 2024

CNBC University of Pennsylvania will offer a bachelor’s degree in AI Coverage of Penn Engineering’s new undergraduate AI degree, also in USA Today, NBC Philadelphia and the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Feb 2024

Daily Pennsylvanian Election to the National Academy of Engineering

Feb 2024

Penn Today Penn Engineering Launches First Ivy League Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Dec 5, 2023

WIRED Researchers Used AI to Design a Worm That Can Hack Your Email

Nov 7, 2023

VentureBeat New Method Reveals How One LLM Can Be Used to Jailbreak Another

Aug 2023

Kathimerini AI and the coming revolution in medicine (in Greek)

Jul 2023

Proto Thema HIAS Symposium — Bridges in Education, Science and Innovation (in Greek)