Cornell Cup

03/01/2019

Our next Q&A for finalists of the 2019 Cornell Cup Arm-Enabled will be Tuesday, March 5 @ 2 p.m. (Eastern time).

http://sites.coecis.cornell.edu/cornellcup/team-info/information-sessions/

10/24/2018

This week's Q&A with David Schneider will be held Friday, Oct. 26 at 3:30 p.m.

http://sites.coecis.cornell.edu/cornellcup/team-info/information-sessions/

10/16/2018

This week's Q&A with David Schneider will be held Friday, Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m. (Eastern time).

http://cornellcup.systemseng.cornell.edu/team-info/information-sessions/

10/13/2018

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10/12/2018

Top 10 Reasons to Enter the Cornell Cup-Arm Enabled – Cornell Cup

News Top 10 Reasons to Enter the Cornell Cup-Arm Enabled By Patrick Gillespie October 11, 2018 David Schneider, Director of M.Eng. Studies, Systems Engineering, Cornell UniversityThe Cornell Cup-Arm Enabled is back, and this year Arm is co-founding. If you are an engineering student in the U.S. or C...

10/09/2018

This week's Q&A will be Friday, Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. (Eastern time).

Information Sessions Every week, the Cornell Cup offers live on-line Q&A Sessions with founder David R. Schneider. You can find the times and links to the upcoming session below (updated weekly, coming soon). Date Time Zoom Link Friday, October 12, 2018 2:00 pm (Eastern Time) https://cornell.zoom.us...

10/03/2018

Our next Q&A session will be this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) time.

Information Sessions Every week, the Cornell Cup offers live on-line Q&A Sessions with founder David R. Schneider. You can find the times and links to the upcoming session below (updated weekly, coming soon). Date Time Zoom Link Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:30 pm (Eastern Time) https://cornell.zoom.u...

09/25/2018

The first information session for the 2019 Cornell Cup - Arm Enabled is set for this Friday, September 28 at 3:30 p.m. (Eastern time).

http://cornellcup.systemseng.cornell.edu/team-info/information-sessions/

06/17/2016

An Afternoon of Robots

05/05/2016

Students in senior lecturer David R. Schneider’s systems engineering robotics lab in Carpenter Hall take a moment from their projects to mark day and pose with their student-designed “Star Wars” R2-D2 lab assistant robot. Also visible in the group is a C-3PO-inspired robot, now decommissioned, that was a student project a couple of years ago.

The R2-D2 is being redeveloped this year to offer more functionality as a lab assistant while the engineering students work on numerous other robotics projects: coming features will include responding to commands via voice recognition, answering with classic R2-D2 beeps and whistles, a better onboard navigation system and an inventory system to be able to bring lab members tools and parts and check those items out to the students.

Schneider, whose own first robotics project in elementary school was inspired by the “Star Wars” androids (as well as a 1987 article, “Build Your Own Robot,” in Boy’s Life magazine), said that the robotics and lore in the “Star Wars” universe, and the memorable human nature of the androids in it, is done remarkably well.
“You could build the same exact robot, but if it didn’t have the same veneer to it, it wouldn’t be as exciting to people,” he said. “It’s something that helps people recognize what’s under the hood— and the hard work behind it — even more so.”

Last year, students in Schneider’s lab on the Intel-Cornell Cup team also used a “Star Wars” theme in designing a virtual reality theme park ride and video game based on the “Star Wars” pod race from “Episode I: The Phantom Menace.”

04/26/2016

Very cool.

04/20/2016

Our next Q&A for finalists will be Friday, April 22 at 12:15 p.m. (Eastern).

Information Sessions