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 2023
Congrats Rohan Banerjee on getting his paper accepted to CoRL 2023 Workshop on "Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics Towards Reliable Learning-Based Autonomy"
October 2023
Tapo joined as an Associate Editor of Autonomous Robots (AURO)
October 2023
Tapo joined the RSS 2024 and HRI 2024 Organizing Committees as well as the HRI 2024 Program Committee
September 2023
Our lab organized an assistive robotics demo session for Ithaca College Occupational Therapy students
September 2023
Tapo gave two guest lectures in KAIST and CMU
September 2023
EmPRISE Lab welcomes a new PhD student to the lab! Ziang Liu is joining the CS PhD program. Ziang is joining us from Stanford where he did his M.S. in CS.
August 2023
Tapo gave two invited lectures in The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2023