Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab

10/09/2025: Please join us at the Soft Matter Seminar at Cornell, Olin Hall 125 12-1pm, as Prof Petersen presents a sneak peak into recent innovations from the CEI-lab.

02/09/2025: Join us as Prof. Petersen presents work from the Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab at the Cornell MAE Colloquium, Sept 2nd 1:30pm in Kimball B11.

19/07/2025: Huge congratulations to Danna Ma for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis on Harnessing Physical Intelligence for Collective Motion in Robotic Matter.

16/06/2025: Big congratulations to M.Eng. team Zhongming Huang, Hongyu Yao, Haocheng Peng, and Shih-ming Lin for having their paper on “Robust Robotic Assembly of Reusable, Rectangular Blocks” accepted to the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

27/04/2025: Come check out our interactive exhibit at Science Connections at the Ithaca Sciencenter 2-4pm April 27th. We will be showcasing the new Mollusca robot for filtering microplastics off the water surface, alongside hand-on activities to learn about microplastics and the snails that inspired the mechanism!

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
• MOLLUSCA II: Autonomous Surface Robot Teams for Energy-Efficient Microplastic Recovery, presented by Prof. Maha Haji 

29/04/2025: Congratulations to graduate student Lydia Calderón-Aceituno for being nominated to represent Cornell at the 2025 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring!

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!

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 2025!