🔬 University#8 Ithaca, NY, USA· Est. 1865
Cornell University — Robotics
Leader in soft robotics and novel fabrication methods. Cornell's Creative Machines Lab pioneered self-replicating robots and soft pneumatic actuators now used in grippers worldwide.
soft roboticsfabricationfood roboticssocial roboticsgrasping
Notable achievements
Self-replicating robots, soft pneumatic grippers, Baxter robot collaboration, food handling robots.
Notable work
Self-replicating robotsSoft grippersOctoBot inspiration
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
OTHER
Structurally engineered ultrasoft PEDOT:PSS fiber microelectrodes with enhanced electrochemical performance for neural interfaces.
Won C, Cho YU, Kweon S +16 more
Science advances · 2026
MANIPULATION
Armadillo-inspired active morphing skeletons for soft machines.
Zhou J, Zhou W, Lee SJ +3 more
Science advances · 2026
MANIPULATION
Self-healing and sense-healing: metal-organic framework-filled polymers for robust and durable soft robotics.
Rajeev S, Amayeka SA, Panicker UG
Materials horizons · 2026
HRI
Embodied or virtually represented: Navigating the embodiment debate in human-robot interaction.
Esterwood C, Ye X, Guan R +1 more
Science robotics · 2026
MANIPULATION
Hi-RAGrasp: A Human-in-the-Loop Experience-Augmented Method for Task-Oriented Grasping.
Liu Y, Hu Y, Liu Y +1 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
Ziyu Wei, Luting Wang, Chen Gao +2 more
2026
Patents
GRANTEDMANIPULATION
Gripping and releasing apparatus and method
Assignee: Cornell University
US9120230 · US · Sep 1, 2015