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 Cornell Tech Oct 28-30th 2024.
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 a 4 week boot camp to promote collaboration between the robotics labs in ECE Cornell!
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 for the Planet!
UMich
20/6/24: Huge congratulations to CEI-lab alumn Dr. Steven Ceron who will be starting as a tenure track professor next year in the Robotics Department at University of Michigan! His new lab website is already live — https://www.synergeticadaptivemachinaslab.com/ .
CRV 2024
30/5/2024: Join us at Guelph University for the 21st Conference on Robots and Vision on May 30th where Prof. Kirstin Petersen is giving a keynote on Robot Superorganisms!
Q exam
23/5/2024: Big congrats to Lydia Calderón Aceituno who just passed the Q-exam in the Mechanical Engineering Department!
