| Hod Lipson | |
|---|---|
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Robotics, Mechanical Engineering |
| Institutions | Israel Defense Force, Brandeis University, MIT, Cornell |
| Alma mater | Technion |
| Known for | Fab@Home, Self aware robots, self replicating robots |
Hod Lipson is an American robotics engineer. He is the director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab (CCML), formerly known as Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity.[1][2]
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Lipson received his Mechanical Engineering PhD in 1998 from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty of Cornell in 2001, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis University's Computer Science Department and a Lecturer at MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department.[2]
Lipson has been involved with machine learning and presented his "self-aware" robot at the 2007 TED conference [1]. On April 2, 2009, the New York Times profiled him because he and his Cornell University graduate student Michael Schmidt developed an intelligent machine to "uncover the fundamental laws of nature".[2] The machine was able to derive the laws of physics such as gravitation by processing the raw information. As Lipson puts it, "The system successfully found such physical laws within experimental data taken from complex, chaotic systems like a double pendulum — a pendulum with a pivot joint in the middle."[3] Lipson has been involved with teams that have created a number of machines including: