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Find out more about the game changing Light Lace™ technology and how it is here to make sports safer for everyone.

Winners Named for NFL's Sixth Annual "1st and Future" Pitch Competition Powered by AWS

Organic Robotics Corporation (ORC) won the top award among four finalists in the Innovations to Advance Athlete Health and Safety category, which featured pitches for products designed to improve player health and safety.

Ten breakthrough apparel innovations to look out for at CES 2020

The world's biggest tech conference, CES 2020, opens in Las Vegas today (8 January), with global brands showcasing everything from robotics to artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and wearable tech innovations. The show runs until 10 January and just-style has rounded up ten of the top innovations in the apparel and footwear space.

Stretchable Sensor Measures Touch

The Cornell team is already pursuing commercialization through Shepherd’s company the Organic Robotics Corporation, which plans to release wearable products as soon as 2021.

Cornell scientists develop new material to give robots more sensitive touch

Developed by PhD student Patricia Xu, at Cornell's Organic Robotics Lab, the "sensory network" - also dubbed "optical lace" - is said to be similar to the human biological nervous system. The lab's paper, Optical Lace for Synthetic Afferent Neural Networks , was published in Science Robotics.

Engineering startups harness Cornell's entrepreneurial energy | Cornell Chronicle

Growing up in Huntington, West Virginia, Austin Hickman had always envisioned "wheeling and dealing" as a businessperson. As he gravitated toward more concrete subjects in high school, such as math and science, practicality gained the upper hand. "But it never really left me, the thought that entrepreneurship is exciting," he said.

University's thriving business incubators, accelerators take off | Cornell Chronicle

As a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Neel Madhukar had figured out a way to accelerate the discovery of new drugs by modeling biological processes. He did it by harnessing artificial intelligence in the lab of Dr. Olivier Elemento, where Madhukar was focusing on precision medicine and pharmacology.