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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!
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 …
