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… Read More

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!

IEEE Senior Member

08/07/2024: Associate Professor Kirstin Petersen is elevated to IEEE senior member, an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession.

DARS 2024

02/07/2024: Big congrats to graduate student Jiahe Chen for getting his paper on “2D Construction Planning for Swarms of Simple Earthmover Robots” accepted to the 17th Intl. Symposium for Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, which will take place at… Read More

IROS 2024

01/07/2024: Big congratulations to Aaron Wilhelm, Andrew Wilhelm, Lydia Isabela Calderon-Aceituno (all co-first authors) for getting their paper on “Frozen Assets: Leveraging Ice, Water, and Phase Transitions in Robots” accepted to IROS 2024. This was the result of… Read More

WWU

20/6/2024: Huge congratulations to CEI-lab (soon-to-be) alumn Dr. Alexandra Nilles who will be starting as an assistant professor in CS at Western Washington University this Fall (2024). Super excited to see her future work on Minimalist, Robust Robots… Read More