President Martha E. Pollack recently spoke to the Chronicle about how universities innovate, the critical importance of free speech and academic expression on campus, and what has surprised her most about Cornell so far.
Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena leads Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab, which develops software for complex, high-level robotics that could one day aid humans with daily tasks. (Sept. 21, 2010)
"Chuck kumquats!" "Defeat baboons!" "Repopulate the world and eat anything that stands in your way!"
These were typical of the slogans, from whimsical to gross, displayed in abundance at the 2006 Game Expo presented May 10 in…
Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
The contestants' self-driving cars will attempt to complete a simulated military supply mission in an urban environment. The grand prize is $2 million. (Nov. 2, 2007)
Brimming with confidence and armed with improved versions of last year's winning robots, eight Cornell University students left today for Australia, where the Big Red team will defend its title in the fourth annual World Cup of robotic soccer, known as RoboCup.
A team of Cornell University engineers has built a self-driving vehicle to enter the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, in which a vehicle must cross 175 miles of battlefield-like terrain entirely under computer control.
For the fourth time in five years, Cornell University's Big Red team has won the international robot soccer competition, known as RoboCup. In finals of the latest competition, held July 2-11 in Padua, Italy, a team of pint-sized robot players built and programmed by Cornell engineering students narrowly beat the RoboRoos from the University of Queensland, Australia, 1-0.
Two Cornell faculty members have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to conduct research abroad during their sabbatical years.