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.
Cluster of Excellence
14/11/18: Huge congratulations to our collaborators at the University of Stuttgart, who was just awarded 50 million Euros to start up a Cluster on Integrative Computational Design and Construction in Architecture by the German Research Foundation DFG. This grant will greatly benefit the future of automated construction, and it will enable us to support interdisciplinary exchange programs for many years to come!
Best Student Paper Award
18/10/18: Yawen and Owen’s paper on a Scalable Compiler for the TERMES Distributed Assembly System won the Best Student Paper Award at DARS 2018!
25 Women in Robotics
10/10/18: Prof. Kirstin Petersen made the 25 Women in Robotics List on Robohub.
CIDA Talk
09/10/18: The Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) has its opening event today, which includes a presentation of our project on Robots and Enology.
