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 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!
August 2026
EmPRISE Lab welcomes new visiting researcher Debajyoti Dasgupta to the lab!
April 2026
Congratulations to Samuel on receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP)!
May 2026
Congrats to Jiaying, Rishabh, Ruolin, Yunting, Zhanxin, Ziang, and their respective teams on getting 5 papers accepted at RSS'26!
March 2026
"WAFFLE" won the 🏆 Best Systems Paper Award at HRI'26!
March 2026
Congrats to the WAFFLE team (Rajat, Eric, Ben, Yunting, and our collaborators at CMU) for being nominated for the 🏆 Best Systems Paper Award at HRI'26!
February 2026
Congratulations to Rohan on successfully defending his PhD!