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
October 2026
Congrats to Zhanxin and her team on getting their paper SensorPerch accepted at RA-L!
October 2026
Congratulations to Rajat on successfully defending his PhD! He will be heading to Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Shuran Song.
October 2026
EmPRISE Lab welcomes Ethan Kroll Gordon as a new postdoctoral researcher!
September 2026
Congratulations to Rishabh on being selected as a Rising Star at NERC 2026!
September 2026
Congratulations to Tapo on receiving the Albert R. George Endowed Faculty Award for Student Project Teams Mentorship from Cornell Duffield Engineering!
September 2026
Congrats to Dohyeok and his team on getting their paper accepted at CoRL'26!
September 2026
EmPRISE Lab welcomes new undergraduate researchers Timothy Lien, Claire Yang, and Manukrishna Iyer to the lab!