Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab

3-5/12/2025: Please join us this week as Prof. Kirstin Petersen gives a talk at the UH Manoa in the Mechanical Engineering Department (Dec. 3rd H691 3-4pm) on “From Social Insects to Robots: Designing with Collective Embodied Intelligence” and at the UH Manoa Water Resources Research Center, WRRC, Dec. 5th 2pm over zoom on “From Nature to Robots and Back: Designing with Collective Embodied Intelligence“. The former will focus on general research contributions in the CEI-lab, the latter will focus on current and proposed contributions in freshwater robotics.

30/10/2025: Sincere thanks to University of Hawai’i at Mānoa for hosting Prof. Kirstin Petersen as a visitng professor November-December 2025. This time will be spent finding new collaborations related to robot monitoring and management in freshwater ecosystems.

11/11/2025: We are excited to announce that the CEI-lab was chosen as one of eight projects funded by the Cornell Atkinson Center for 2030 Project Fast Grants. The funding will support integration of eDNA samplers on autonomous robot boats. 

31/10/2025: Join us for Prof. Kirstin Petersen’s seminar on bio-inspired robotics at the Southwest Robotics Colloquium 2025 at Arizona State University.  

15/10/2025: Prof. Kirstin Petersen was invited to join the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Faculty Fellows in recognition of her work on sustainability research.