Check out this video teaser on the lab, made by summer intern Jonna Chen from the Singapore American High School:

2023:

• “Bees and wasps solve geometry problem the same way” Science Coverage of our Bio PLOS paper.
• “Tiny spinning robots sorted themselves into this beautiful pattern” Nature highlight, and “Swarming microrobots self-organize into diverse patterns” Cornell Chronicle article about our PNAS microrobots paper.
• “Swarmalators better envision synchronized microrobots” Cornell Chronicle article on our new swarmalator model
• Cornell Engineering spotlight on graduate student Danna Ma. 
• “Soft robots harness viscous fluids for complex motions” Cornell Chronicle article on our new soft robotic actuators, January 2023. Follow-up in Tech Briefs, the Cornell Daily Sun, Aerospace and Defence Engineering. 
• Jonathan Jaramillo’s introduction to automating viticulture management is featured on CIDA’s website.

2022:

• Robohub interview on “Robots that act collectively, when, and how?”, May 2022.
• The Martha Robot was featured in National Geographic in June 2022!
• Cornell Chronicle article on our Nature Communications paper on Microrobots. 

2021:

• Cornell Research Spotlight about the CAREER grant.
• Spotlight profile on Cornell Engineering graduate student Jonathan Jaramillo.
• Science and Cornell Chronicle follow-up articles on our PNAS paper on honey comb. 
• Cheap, user-friendly smartphone app predicts vineyard yields, Cornell Chronicle and follow-up articles from MorningAgClips, the Florida Times, Corbeau Innovation, Goodfruit, Amantea Online, and WAER podcast.
• Learning from Robots, ECE Connections Alumni Magazine on research by ECE Robotics professors
• Cornell Chronicle on the 11 CAREER awards granted to assistant professors this year (including Kirstin Petersen)
• Check out the Black in Robotics special feature on graduate student Nialah Wilson

2020:

• Read about the CEI-lab’s response to COVID-19: WENY, Cornell Chronicle, the Verge, NPR

2019:

• “Awards fund innovations in Digital Agriculture”, Cornell Chronicle
• “Art inspired by slime mold-like robots unveiled at NYC museum”, Cornell Chronicle
• “Cities in the future could be built by robots mimicking nature” Techxplore
• The CEI-lab is featured in this year Cornell Giving Day video!

2018:

• “What Termites Can Teach Us”, The New Yorker, on Lisa Margonelli’s book on termites, with a shout-out to our old construction robots.
• “Tag, you’re an insect”, Atlas Obscura on our past work on termite tracking.
• “Maze Runners”, Cornell Alumni Magazine on the ECE 3400 competition.
• “Looking to nature for robot inspiration”, Cornell Engineering Spotlights.
• IEEE Spectrum, Digital Trends, Popular Mechanics, Hackaday, Discover Magazine, Smithsonian, and Cornell Chronicle articles on our Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators.
• Spot-light profile in the EZRA-Magazine.
• “ECE Women target gender issues in Electrical Engineering”, Cornell Connections Magazine.
• “ECE3400: Intelligent Physical Systems”, Cornell Connections Magazine.
• “Underbug”, Phenomenal book by Lisa Margonelli about termites, termite-inspired robots, and those who study them, in press.

2017:

• “Robots Like Insects“,  Office of the Vice Provost for Research Website, Cornell University.
• “Cornell projects to cultivate digital agriculture landscape“, Cornell Chronicle.

2016:

• “Gentle Strength for Robots“, Science Daily.

2014 (selected):

• “Termite-inspired robots build castles“, Nature News.
• “Watch this little robot build itself some stairs“, IEEE Spectrum.
• “How termite-inspired robots could build for us“, CNN.
• “Termite-inspired robots can build unsupervised“, National Geographic.
• “Termites inspire self-organizing robot colony“, Wired.
• “Termites inspire robot builders“, BBC.