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
GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation
Paul Koch. Adem Karakurt, André Sers
2026
3D Printing of Magnetic Soft Materials for Functional Structures and Devices.
Yu S, Yan Y, Chen M +5 more
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
Patents
Gripping and releasing apparatus and method
Assignee: Cornell University
US9120230 · US · Sep 1, 2015