Guy Hoffman is an assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He heads the
Human-Robot Collaboration & Companionship lab, which studies the computational, engineering, and social aspects of interactions between humans and robots. His designs include Blossom, Vyo, Shimi, and Kip. Hoffman is also on the board of directors of
Intuition Robotics, which is developing a social robotics product.