Science Robotics Review on Collective Robotic Construction!

13/03/19: Check out our comprehensive review on state-of-the-art in collective robotic construction, which came out today in Science Robotics. Or check out their teaser video:

Diversity Preview Weekend!

2-3/03/19: Join Phoebe Koenig for the Poster Exhibition with the Plant Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Entomology departments at Cornell this upcoming weekend in the Corson-Mudd Atrium!

Robotics Minor @Cornell

25/01/19: Our hard work finally paid off: we now have an official Robotics Minor for our stellar undergraduates in ECE, MAE, and CS departments!

Find more info here.

RoboSoft 2019

23/01/2019: Big congrats to Timothy Duggan, Logan Horowitz, Asena Ulug, and Emilie Baker for getting their paper on “Inchworm-Inspired Locomotion in Soft Robots” accepted to RoboSoft 2019!

Ithaca Science Center Outreach

19/1/19: Join us at the Ithaca Center for a day of fun – Emilie Baker will help you power light from wind! Ages 5 and up 🙂

Nialah passes her Quals

17/1/19: Big congratulations to Nialah for passing her MAE Qualifying exam!

Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms

22/12/2018: Check out our chapter in the new Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms Book from Woodhead Publishing on Fluid-Driven Intrinsically Soft Robots!

Aerospace Field Member

19/12/2018: Prof. Petersen becomes a field member of Cornell Aerospace –  a nice addition to field memberships in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Science.

Cornell Robotics Day

03/12/18: Come join us tomorrow for the first annual Robotics Day at Cornell. Events will run 9am-4pm in Duffield Hall – these include the final competition in ECE3400 and Mechatronics, with more than 80 teams competing. All are welcome!

Here’s a composition from ECE3400 in 2017:

Update: Here’s a local newscast on Robotics Day.

Symposium on Computational Fabrication

29/11/18: Kirstin joins as Robotics Area Chair for the 3rd annual Symposium on Computational Fabrication, held next Summer at CMU, Pittsburgh.