Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.
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Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces
Over 10 weeks this summer, Rev’s Prototyping Hardware Accelerator guided product teams from back-of-the-napkin ideas to fully-fledged startups. In categories from climate technology to agricultural innovations, and with projects that range from canoe racing tools to improved tea dispensers, teams gained access to experts in their industry’s field, working together to figure out if their concept might be commercially desirable, technologically feasible and economically viable.
Dean Bala talks with The Wall Street Journal about how university researchers can influence generative AI research
Outspent by Big Tech, some academics are focusing on research that requires less computing power, even as they try to build more of it.
Redesigning videoconferencing for, and by, people who stutter
New research and an app aim to make Zoom and other video conferencing platforms less stressful for people with speech diversities, while improving the experience for everyone.
Help or hindrance? ER robots have potential to aid health care workers
Amid the unpredictability and occasional chaos of emergency rooms, a robot has the potential to assist health care workers and support clinical teamwork, Cornell and Michigan State University researchers found. The research team’s robotic crash cart prototype highlights the potential for robots to assist health care workers in bedside patient care and offers designers a framework to develop and test robots in other unconventional areas.
Virtual, mixed realities converge in new driving simulator
Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by researchers at Cornell Tech, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling both drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.
Successful Artificial Intelligence Event Inspires Large Audience on May 29
The Emerging Tech Dialogues event on May 29, 2024 — the first in a new series — drew more than 750 registrations from Cornell, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Cornell Tech faculty, staff, students, and researchers — all interested in exploring Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, the symposium’s theme.
Through research and education, Bowers CIS is shaping fairer, ethical AI
In its world-class research and teaching, Cornell Bowers CIS is uniquely positioned to guide tomorrow’s innovators as they dive into issues of ethics, fairness and privacy, while weighing the policy implications of technological advances.