Our mission is to enable robots to improve the quality of life of people with mobility limitations by assisting them with activities of daily living (ADLs). In our lab, we seek solutions to the fundamental research question on how to leverage robot-world physical and social interactions in unstructured human environments to perform relevant ADLs.

EmPRISE lab is a part of the Department of Computer Science in the Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. We are a full-stack robotics lab leveraging tools from sensing, perception, planning, learning, and control to provide intelligent autonomy. Our projects delve deep into human-robot interaction, haptic perception, robot manipulation, and tactile sensing. We are not only passionate about developing algorithms that solve fundamental problems in these domains but also strongly believe in developing real robotic systems, deploying them in the real world, and evaluating them with real users.

Recent News

September 2024
Tapo gave a keynote at Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC), 2024

September 2024
Tapo gave an invited talk at MAE Colloquium, Cornell

August 2024
Tapo gave a keynote at ROMAN workshop on "Towards Conducting Non-Trivial, Multi-Site Replication Studies of Human-Robot Interaction Research", 2024

July 2024
Tapo gave an Invited Talk at RSS workshop on "Robots that help and ask for help", Netherlands, 2024

July 2024
Tapo gave an Invited Talk at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, 2024

June 2024
Tapo gave an Invited Talk at NUSAIL AI Horizons Seminar Series, Singapore, 2024

June 2024
Tapo gave an Invited Talk at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam, 2024

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