Nialah passes A-Exam
21/4/20: Big congratulations to graduate student Nialah Wilson for passing her A-exam. In collaboration with Prof. Shiri Azenkot, Nialah will now be embarking on a new and exiting research project related to accessible excergames using drone-feedback!
Scientific Frontiers Paper
13/3/2020: Big congratulations to Nialah Wilson, Steven Ceron, and Logan Horowitz for their paper published today in a special issue of the journal on Scientific Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The paper summarizes years of work on “Scalable and Robust Fabrication, Operation, and Control of Compliant Modular Robots“, or the “DONUts project” as we refer to it.
Scientific Reports Paper
28/02/2020: Big congratulations to Phoebe Koenig, Michael Smith, Logan Horowitz, and Daniel Palmer for their paper on “Artificial shaking signals in honey bee colonies elicit natural responses“, which was published today in Scientific Reports.
CIDA Seminar
27/01/20: Please join us for the CIDA Seminar series today 12-1pm in Gates 121
Kirstin will present:
“The Lower Hanging Fruit: A new approach to field robotics in precision agriculture”
RA-Letters / RoboSoft2020
22/01/20: Big congratulations to Danna Ma, Steven Ceron, and Gregory Kaiser for getting their article on “Simple Low-Cost Fabrication of Soft Sensors for Feature Reconstruction” accepted to Robotics Automation Letters (RA-Letters) with a presentation at the Intl. Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft2020)!
Cornell Entomology Symposium
14/01/20: Kirstin Petersen will open the 9th annual Cornell Entomology Symposium with a Keynote on Robot Super-Organisms – hope to see you there!
Cornell China Center
18/11/19: If you happen to be in Beijing, please join us for the Inaugural Event of the Cornell China Center. Kirstin Petersen will participate in a panel on Digital Agriculture!
Packard Fellowship
16/10/2019: Thrilled to announce that Prof. Kirstin Petersen has been named a 2019 #PackardFellow. This support will enable studies of honey bee swarms and the insights they hold to enable long term autonomous robot swarms. See the official announcement from the @PackardFdn here.
NSF EAGER grant award
19/08/05: We are very excited to announce the initiation of a new project with Prof. Daniel Goldman and the CRABlab at Georgia Tech, concerning Emergent Properties in Active Granular Materials, sponsored by the NSF Division of Materials Research.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal Paper
18/07/19: Big congratulations to alumni Yawen Deng and Owen Hua for getting their extended journal article on scalable compiler frameworks for the TERMES system accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems! Check out their paper here.
