The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and Princeton have issued a request for information (RFI) to be applied in developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub, based at the University, to promote and integrate AI applications.

The New Jersey AI Summit brought together 600 leaders from academia, business and government at Princeton University on April 11 to explore the rapidly evolving possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and to begin charting a course for New Jersey’s role in the future of AI.

After celebrating the success of the inaugural START Innovators, each of whom raised seed funding to spin their ventures off campus, the START program is thrilled to welcome its second cohort of academic founders to the program.

Princeton researchers have created a new type of hydrogel that is recyclable, yet still tough and stable enough for practical use (and reuse).

As flexible networks of polymer chains suffused by water, hydrogels possess excellent properties including softness, elasticity and biocompatibility. Accordingly, the squishy materials have already found widespread use as contact lenses and wound dressings. Hydrogels also hold great promise for drug delivery systems, agriculture and food packaging, among other applications.

The design fluidly combines two common modes of robot mobility: legs and wheels. The robots’ unique configuration allows them to strategically navigate curbs, stairs and irregular terrain.

Most heating and cooling systems adjust the temperature of a room’s air, but with recent technological advances, comfort can be achieved more efficiently by responding to additional factors such as humidity, air speed, clothing, metabolic rate and radiant temperature. This last factor, radiant temperature, describes the warmth or coolness of surfaces such as windows, floors, desks and chairs.

The approach, called DataMUX, could reduce energy consumption and make powerful computing more widely available.

Renewable electricity is on track to replace fossil fuels to decarbonize many industries, but the supply of lithium for batteries and electric vehicles falls short of meeting its rapidly increasing demand.

Superconducting ink — a single-molecule-thin substance that conducts electricity without resistance — has a wide range of potential applications, from a thin bandage that measures heart rate to a phone made from a thin piece of film worn around the wrist. However, previous methods for creating this material have not lived up to expectations.

Research engineers from Princeton and the Indian Institute of Science have developed a protocol for obtaining high yields of oxygen by splitting water into its core ingredients, hydrogen and oxygen. Unlike today’s method of generating oxygen, this new industrial technology employs inexpensive iron and nickel catalysts combined with renewable electricity from solar, wind or other sources to break the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and then join two oxygen atoms to produce oxygen gas.