Andrew and Aaron have been accepted to the ICRA 2025 Doctoral Consortium! This is an exciting opportunity for them to share their research and network with other researchers.

Aaron and Andrew both had their papers accepted into ICRA25! They will be presenting their work this May at the conference in Atlanta, GA.

Aaron Wilhelm and Nils Napp Improved Bag-of-Words Image Retrieval with Geometric Constraints for Ground Texture Localization International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.

Andrew Wilhelm and Nils Napp Monotone Subsystem Decomposition for Efficient Multi-Objective Robot Design International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.

Andrew presented Aaron’s and his paper at IROS24 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates! The paper explores how to leverage phase transitions for robots made of ice.

AJ Wilhelm*, AJ Wilhelm*, LI Calderon-Aceituno*, N Napp, K Petersen, EF Helbling Frozen Assets: Leveraging Ice, Water, and Phase Transitions in Robots International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024

We have a new website! It is based on Hugo and the mainboard theme.

It is still under construction shoudl be reasonably up to date. I will slowly migrate older content to the new site in the next few weeks. I

Leah and her team, Empathera, has made it to the final round of the HKUST-SINO Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition in Hong Kong. They are among the top 5 selected internationally to pitch their product in-person to HKUST faculty and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. The team is working on a device that would help prevent pressure ulcers for patients in ICUs. They originally met at Cornell’s Health Hackathon earlier in the year where they won the grand prize.