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Inside the Medical Crash Cart Robot

2 weeks ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Sarah MarquartMedical crash carts — stocked with medications, syringes, gauze, and IV fluids — are essential tools in emergency rooms, where seconds matter, space is tight, and confusion can cost lives. However, despite their importance, crash carts vary widely in layout between hospitals and departments. In high-stress situations, this inconsistency can lead to delays as providers search for supplies or open the wrong drawers.
VitalHide Puts Privacy First in Wireless Health Monitoring

2 weeks ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Sarah MarquartWireless health monitoring is rapidly evolving, promising a future where breathing, heart rate, and other key metrics can be tracked passively, continuously, and without the need for wearables, such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, or other bulky medical monitors. However, with that promise comes a pressing concern: Who has access to the sensitive data collected by these devices, and how much control do users actually have?
Cornell Tech Excels at CHI 2025 with 16 Papers and Faculty Honor

1 month ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Multiple research papers authored by faculty and students from the Department of Information Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Cornell Bowers CIS) were honored or featured at the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), held recently in Yokohama, Japan. CHI is the premier international venue for research in human-computer interaction (HCI), drawing scholars and practitioners from around the world.
Imprint, a Startup Born from Runway Program, Raises $15 Million

1 month ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Grace StanleyImprint, an organization founded at Cornell Tech that is dedicated to decoding the body’s immune memory and uncovering the causes of chronic diseases, announced that it has raised over $15 million in funding. Imprint’s journey began in 2019 when its founder, Beck Brachman, was accepted into Cornell Tech’s Runway Postdoc Program, a startup incubator within the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.
Cornell Tech Celebrates with May Events, Startup Awards

1 month ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

To mark the end of this academic year, Cornell Tech will host a series of events in May to celebrate its campus culture. The campus, based in New York City, inspires successful startups and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together scholars and experts in engineering, law, business, design, health, urban tech, media, and art.
Home Care Workers Unaware of AI Risks and Potential Benefits

2 months ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Grace StanleyArtificial intelligence is increasingly being used in home health care – but home health care workers are generally unaware of that. Nor do they understand how AI works, why it may retain their information and that it could replicate bias and discrimination in their workplace.
Record Matches and Challenges Mark 11th Cornell Giving Day

Mar 25, 2025 | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Jennifer WholeyFor 24 hours, donors rallied together to help Cornell “reach for the stars” on the 11th Giving Day, held March 13. This year’s space-themed event raised $11,206,717 from 17,591 donors, for a total of 25,929 gifts making a tangible show of support for causes across the university.
Bio-Inspired Approach Creates Bespoke Photovoltaics

Mar 12, 2025 | tech.cornell.edu | David Nutt |Grace Stanley

By David NuttThere is more to photovoltaic panels than the materials that comprise them: The design itself can also drive – or potentially diminish – the widespread adoption of solar technology. Put bluntly: Most solar panels are not much to look at. And their flat, nonflexible composition means they can only be affixed to similarly flat structures.
Mimi Ọnụọha Pushes Artistic Boundaries as New Backslash Fellow

Mar 11, 2025 | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Backslash at Cornell Tech, dedicated to advancing new works of art and technology that escape convention, has announced Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha as its first Backslash Fellow. Ọnụọha is an artist-in-residence at Cornell Tech, embedding her creative practice in the new Backslash Studio at the Tata Innovation Center and allowing her to foster collaboration between researchers and students on the Roosevelt Island campus.
AI Models Makes Precise Copies of Cuneiform Characters

Mar 7, 2025 | tech.cornell.edu | Patricia Waldron |Grace Stanley

By Patricia WaldronDeciphering some people’s writing can be a major challenge – especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted into 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and copy over cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease. Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters.