Guy Hoffman joined the faculty of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University in January 2016. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya and co-director of the IDC Media Innovation Lab. Hoffman was a research fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hoffman holds a Ph.D from MIT in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI), and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. He also studied animation at Parsons School of Design in NYC.
Hoffman studies computational, design, and social aspects of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on human-robot collaboration and companionship. His research interests include embodied cognition for social robots, anticipation and timing in HRI and multi-agent MDPs, nonverbal behavior in HRI, robotics for the performing arts, and non-anthropomorphic robot design.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Designing Interactive Systems, Prototyping & Innovation Processes.
Researchers from Cornell and New York University, including Guy Hoffman, are addressing the question of whether robots need clothes. They have determined yes, and these clothes can serve a practical... Read more about Do robots need clothes? Yes, for form and function
Associate Professor Guy Hoffman and his team have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions without relying on touch at all. The technology... Read more about Soft robots use camera and shadows to sense human touch
Associate Professor Guy Hoffman's 2019 paper won the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE. The paper is titled "Evaluating Fluency in Human-Robot Collaboration." Read more about Associate Professor Guy Hoffman won the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award
