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.
Notable achievements
Self-replicating robots, soft pneumatic grippers, Baxter robot collaboration, food handling robots.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Soft robotics for chemists.
Filip Ilievski, Aaron D. Mazzeo, R. Shepherd +2 more
Angewandte Chemie · 2011
Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human-Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics
Wenzheng Heng, Samuel A. Solomon, Wei Gao
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2021
Biomolecular “lock-key” model-inspired cage/benzene ring structure chain-extension matching strategy for high performance of linear waterborne polyurethane toward application in recyclable soft robotics
Chen Zhou, Nana Zhao, Xiaoxiao Yang +5 more
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · 2026
Optimization-based shape design of soft-rigid hybrid fingers for adaptive parallel robotic gripper
Yilun Sun, Zengwei Wang, Tim C. Lueth
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics · 2026
Towards Soft Robotic Exogloves for Musculoskeletal Manipulation to Reduce Pain and Spasticity
Antonia Salluce, Maeryn Erdheim, Gailen Davis +3 more
2026
A Hybrid Compliant-Tendon Laparoscopic Instrument for Distal Articulation and Grasping: Design and Experimental Validation.
Kumar P, Ravi B
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2026
Patents
Gripping and releasing apparatus and method
Assignee: Cornell University
US9120230 · US · Sep 1, 2015