Celebration is critical and today we’re celebrating robots, Dean Miller said to the crowd gathered in Pennovation Center, the University of Pennsylvania’s research hub in Grays Ferry on Wednesday morning.

“Sometimes when you think about robotics, you think about MIT, you think about [Carnegie Mellon University], you think about Stanford,” Miller, president and CEO of Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) told Technical.ly. “But the truth is, there’s amazing work going on in robotics here at Penn.”

More than 100 people attended the Philly Tech Week event, which was hosted by Penn Center for Innovation, the university’s tech transfer arm, and PACT, the regional business association focused on emerging tech and healthcare companies.

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