The prototype robot can autonomously traverse and manipulate a 3-D truss structure, using specially designed gears and joints to assemble and disassemble the structure as it climbs.
The Cornell-developed robotic gripper that already boasts Internet fame and imitation has evolved: Now, it can throw things by using air pressure to launch objects forward.
Cornell physicists Maury Tigner and Ernest Fontes spoke on the future of accelerator-based science at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Feb. 17, 2009)
A NASA-funded collaborative research team led by Cornell engineers launched a rocket Feb. 18 from Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range to collect data straight from the heart of the aurora borealis.
Barbara Baird, John Guckenheimer, Carol Krumhansl and Peter Lepage join 186 other new fellows from the United States and 22 foreign honorary members this year. (May 1, 2008)
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that single-molecule devices can serve as powerful new tools for fundamental science experiments. (June 10, 2010)
An interdisciplinary team of Ithaca and Weill Cornell researchers have created an artificial implant to replace intervertebral discs in the spinal column. (Aug. 1, 2011)
Squyres, principal scientific investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, has received the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. (Oct. 5, 2009)