National Geographic
21/11/17: National Geographic visited our lab to write an article about ShadowSense and the Martha Robot – and the visit made it to their Instagram page!
Research Excellence Award
21/11/10: Very honored to announce that Prof. Kirstin Petersen was awarded the Cornell College of Engineering Research Excellence Award – the most prestigious award that the CoE offers to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to their field… Read More
Robotics panel
11/10/21: Please join us for the first annual CIDA symposium October 11-12th. The first item on the agenda is a panel moderated by Kirstin Petersen on Agricultural Robotics Around the World! Participation is free (online) with registration.
ICARA2022
30/9/21: Congrats to PhD student Haron Abdel-Raziq for getting his paper on Automated Monitoring of Pollinators With Agricultural Robots accepted to the 8th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications!
Science Technology Center
09/09/2021: We’re extremely excited to announce that the Science Technology Center Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) launched today. This is a $25M collaborative venture awarded by the National Science Foundation to the University of Illinois,… Read More
R:SS Pioneers
11/7/21: Join us at 5.25pm EST at the R:SS pioneers workshop panel for senior PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers.
RA-L / IROS 2021
30/06/21: Big congratulations to PhD student Steven Ceron, M.Eng. student Annie Kimmel (now at CMU), and Postdoc Alli Niles for getting their paper on Soft Robotic Oscillators with Strain-Based Coordination accepted to RA-Letters with presentation at IROS2021!
STEMNoire
18/05/21: Congratulations to Nialah Wilson for having her abstract on Designing Tactile Human-Drone Interactions for Movement Instruction​, accepted for an oral presentation at the 2021 STEMNoire Inaugural Research and Holistic Wellness Conference!
