Cornell is spearheading the development and refinement of AI through extensive interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Entrepreneurial students win awards for summer work on their startups
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
Cornell Tech announces the 2026 Startup Awards and the Inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit
As the 2025–26 academic year comes to a close, Cornell Tech will host a series of events throughout May showcasing student achievement, entrepreneurship, design, and the future of emerging technologies.
Humanities scholars tackle research across disciplines
The work of the Humanities scholars spans across humanities fields and also highlights intersections with science, technology, business, law and other disciplines.
Teaching AI to operate particle accelerators with DOE grant
Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, professor of physics, is leading a $2.9 million Department of Energy grant project to train AI systems on computer models of two accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Course: Understanding and using the superpowers of AI
New Online Course for High School and College Students
AI & Society Seed Grants
Internal funding to support social science and humanities research on the societal impacts of AI.
Deadline: August 15, 2026.
Handle with care: Soft robot gripper picks ripe fruit without bruising
Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then pick them without causing any damage.
Making AI safer for victims of intimate partner violence
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented, a new Cornell Tech study has found.
AI tools to help vision-impaired are good, but could be better
Artificial intelligence is touching nearly every aspect of life, including assistive technology for vision-impaired individuals. And just like in other arenas, the AI used to assist them is good, but far from perfect.









