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IROS 2025

16/06/2025: Big congratulations to M.Eng. team Zhongming Huang, Hongyu Yao, Haocheng Peng, and Shih-ming Lin for having their paper on “Robust Robotic Assembly of Reusable, Rectangular Blocks” accepted to the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and …

Ithaca Sciencenter

27/04/2025: Come check out our interactive exhibit at Science Connections at the Ithaca Sciencenter 2-4pm April 27th. We will be showcasing the new Mollusca robot for filtering microplastics off the water surface, alongside hand-on activities to learn about …

CERF 2025

29/04/2025: Catch up on our recent innovations on a snail-inspired robot for microplastics removal over two presentations by our collaborators at CERF 2025: MOLLUSCA I: Bioinspired Undulatory Robots for Microplastic Collection and Education, presented by Prof. Sunghwan Jung …

2025 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

29/04/2025: Congratulations to graduate student Lydia Calderón-Aceituno for being nominated to represent Cornell at the 2025 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring!

ICRA 2025

28/01/2025: Big congratulations to Sadie Cutler and Danna Ma for having their paper on Strain-Coordinated Formation, Migration, and Encapsulation Behaviors in a Tethered Robot Collective accepted to the IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation!

Sadie Cutler’s defense

12/12/2024: Big congratulations to Sadie Cutler for successfully defending her thesis “An Examination of How Tethers Can Support Collaborative Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems”! Sadie will be joining as an engineer with the Naval Sea Systems Command in Spring …

Robot Talk

10/01/25: Check out the recent Robot Talk podcast with Prof. Kirstin Petersen!

Jiahe Chen’s defense

10/12/2024: Big congratulations to Jiahe Chen for successfully defending his thesis on Error-Tolerant Decentralized Robotic Construction!

Robotics PhD

24/11/12: Very excited to announce the culmination of a multi-year effort – Cornell is now officially offering a Ph.D. in robotics!  

ELI award

01/10/24: Big congratulations to CS senior Sabrina Liu for receiving a second ELI grant to further her work on flocking in swarms of simple robots!