Nature Comms
26/04/22: Huge congratulations to Steven Ceron for getting his paper on “Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions” published in Nature Communications today! This is the result of a 6 month long collaboration with the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
AROB
21/2/2022: Big congratulations to Zoe Du, Zach Brothers, and Leah Valdes, as well as Jack Defay and Jake Peters for having their Symposium presentations at SWARM 2021 accepted to the special issue of Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB).
RoboSoft 2022
10/02/2022: Big congratulations to Postdoc Alli Nilles for getting her work on “Strain-Based Consensus in Soft, Inflatable Robots” accepted to the Intl. Conference for Soft Robotics!
ICRA 2022 Papers and Workshops
31/01/2022: Big congratulations to graduate students Haron Abdel-Raziq and Daniel Palmer for getting their work on “Mapping Unknown Environments With Instrumented Honey Bees” and to undergraduates Robby Huang, Alex Zhu, and Kathleen Wang for getting their work on “Construction and Excavation by Collaborative Double-Tailed SAW Robots” accepted to ICRA 2022!
Beyond these presentations, the CEI-lab are also helping to organize four workshops on Workshop on Collective Robotic Construction, Workshop on Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots, Robotics and Art: Automating Expressions, and Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools – hope you can join us!
ELI Award
10/01/2022: Congratulations to undergraduate Elizabeth Garner for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative Award to support her work on collective behaviors in shape morphing particles!
RA-L / ICRA
5/1/2022: Big congratulations to undergraduates Robby Huang, Alex Zhu, and Kathleen Wang for getting their work on “Construction and Excavation by Collaborative Double-Tailed SAW Robots” accepted to RA-Letters with an ICRA 2022 presentation!
Physical Review E
07/12/2021: Big congratulations to collaborator Kevin O’Keeffe and graduate student Steven Ceron for getting their paper on “Collective behavior of swarmalators on a one-dimensional ring” accepted to Physical Review E!
National Geographic
21/11/17: National Geographic visited our lab to write an article about ShadowSense and the Martha Robot – and the visit made it to their Instagram page!
Research Excellence Award
21/11/10: Very honored to announce that Prof. Kirstin Petersen was awarded the Cornell College of Engineering Research Excellence Award – the most prestigious award that the CoE offers to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to their field and to the college.
SICB 2021
19/10/2021: Happy to announce that we will partake in the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology next year, presenting recent findings in two studies related to visual tracking of insect swarms and stigmergic coordination in digging termites!
