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Nialah passes her Quals

17/1/19: Big congratulations to Nialah for passing her MAE Qualifying exam!

Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms

22/12/2018: Check out our chapter in the new Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms Book from Woodhead Publishing on Fluid-Driven Intrinsically Soft Robots!

Aerospace Field Member

19/12/2018: Prof. Petersen becomes a field member of Cornell Aerospace –  a nice addition to field memberships in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Science.

Cornell Robotics Day

03/12/18: Come join us tomorrow for the first annual Robotics Day at Cornell. Events will run 9am-4pm in Duffield Hall – these include the final competition in ECE3400 and Mechatronics, with more than 80 teams competing. All are …

Symposium on Computational Fabrication

29/11/18: Kirstin joins as Robotics Area Chair for the 3rd annual Symposium on Computational Fabrication, held next Summer at CMU, Pittsburgh.

Cluster of Excellence

14/11/18: Huge congratulations to our collaborators at the University of Stuttgart, who was just awarded 50 million Euros to start up a Cluster on Integrative Computational Design and Construction in Architecture by the German Research Foundation DFG. This …

Best Student Paper Award

18/10/18: Yawen and Owen’s paper on a Scalable Compiler for the TERMES Distributed Assembly System won the Best Student Paper Award at DARS 2018!

25 Women in Robotics

10/10/18: Prof. Kirstin Petersen made the 25 Women in Robotics List on Robohub.

CIDA Talk

09/10/18: The Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) has its opening event today, which includes a presentation of our project on Robots and Enology.

ELI Award

27/09/18: Congratulations to Aleena Kurumunda for receiving the Engineering Learning Initiatives Award funded by “Robert A. Cowie ’55 ME”, to work towards an intelligent soft robot capable of substrate classification!