SFI Symposium
20-23/6/23: Dr. Alexandra Nilles and alumni Dr. Steven Ceron presents at the “Collective Intelligence: Foundations and Radical Ideas” Symposium at the Santa Fe Institute – and won the Best Poster Award!
PNAS
06/06/23: Huge congratulations to Dr. Steven Ceron for getting our joint work with Max Planck on “Programmable self-organization of heterogeneous microrobot collectives” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today! Check the original article here, a Cornell Chronicle feature here, and a highlight in Nature here!
MPI Seminar
23/05/23: If you find yourself near Stuttgart, please join me at my invited research seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems May 23rd 11am.
EI Conference
15/03/2023: Only 7 days left to the 3rd annual International Conference on Embodied Intelligence (March 22-24th).
The conference in held online and attendance is free with registration. Prof. Petersen will be chairing the second half of the first day.
Hope to see you there!
Nat Comms
20/2/23: Very excited to announce that Drs Ceron and O’Keeffe’s work on “Diverse Behaviors in Non-Uniform Chiral and Non-Chiral Swarmalators” was just published in Nature Communications today!
Addendum 7/3/2023: The article was just featured in the Applied Physics and Mathematics section of the Editor’s Highlights.
AISYS
21/1/23: Very excited to announce that our work on Harnessing Nonuniform Pressure Distributions in Soft Robotic Actuators was published in the Journal for Advanced Intelligent Systems today. It is also slated to appear on the inside cover of the next issue!
If you’re not up for the technical article, there’s an excellent summary in the Cornell Chronicle as well.
This was collaborative effort by Gregory Kaiser (MEng’21), Dr Yoav Matia, Prof Amir Gat, Prof. Robert Shepherd, and Prof. Nathan Lazarus.
HRI 2023
05/12/22: Big congratulations to the two sets of collaborators who just had their papers accepted to the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023):
- Yuhan Hu, Jin Ryu, David Gundana, Kirstin Petersen, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Guy Hoffman. Nudging or Waiting? Automatically Synthesized Robot Strategies for Evacuating Noncompliant Users in an Emergency Situation.
- Nialah Wilson-Small, David Goedicke, Kirstin Petersen, Shiri Azenkot. A Drone Teacher: Designing Physical Human-Drone Interactions for Movement Instruction.
Teaching Award
23/09/2022: Kirstin Petersen receives the Douglas Whitney ‘61 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Cornell College of Engineering, for her design and implementation of the Fast Robots course.
DARS 2022
120922: Big congratulations to Danna Ma, Jiahe Chen, and Sadie Cutler for getting their work on “Smarticle 2.0: Design of Scalable, Entangled Smart Matter”, and Jack Defay and Alexandra Nilles for getting their work on “Collective Behaviors of Braitenberg Vehicles” accepted to the Intl. Symposium for Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)!
Chen passes A-exam
18/07/2022: Big congratulations to Jiahe Chen for passing his A-exam today!
