News - Southwest I-Corps

September 10, 2025

Robots Are Joining The Team And Elevating The Value Of Humans

Meet Moxi, a humanoid robot that has become a valued member of medical teams at hospital networks across the US. The brainchild of two remarkable experts in robotics, Moxi may be the shape of things ...

September 2, 2025

MAESTRO Hand Exoskeleton Technology Delivers AI-Powered Stroke Rehabilitation

Written by: Nessie Chu-Heng Lu, Brumley Startup Fellow - The University of Texas at Austin When Dr. Stefano Dalla Gasperina, a postdoctoral researcher, joined the ReNeu Robotics Lab at The ...

July 13, 2025

Texas A&M’s Junho Lee Selected for 2025 ACTIVATE Cohort

Dr. Junho Lee, principal geotechnical engineer of Deep Anchor Solutions and researcher at Texas A&M University, has been selected for the prestigious ACTIVATE Fellowship. As part of the Houston ...

June 23, 2025

Bioness Medical Announces Acquisition of the Assets and Business of Harmonic Bionics

VALENCIA, Calif., June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bioness Medical, Inc. ("Bioness", or the "Company") a leading neuro-rehabilitation Company aiming to improve and restore function for those living ...

June 23, 2025

BBC features Dr. Lu of UT Austin

ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles, whilst Betelgeuse’s elusive buddy continues to sneak past our best telescopes. Earlier this year, Solar ...

June 3, 2025

Empowering the Future of Neural Interfaces: Dr. Ifana Mahbub’s Team Completes NSF National I-Corps with Wireless Neuromodulation Innovation

The University of Texas at Dallas is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Dr. Ifana Mahbub and her research team, who recently completed the National Science Foundation’s prestigious National ...

May 26, 2025

Soft Exosuit Technology Advances to NSF National I-Corps Program

Drs. Nicholas (Nick) Fey and Ross Neuman, an associate professor and postdoctoral scholar, respectively, in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Texas Robotics Consortium at The ...

April 11, 2025

Contoro Robotics Secures $12M Series A to Bring AI-Powered Trailer Unloading to Scale

Doosan Investment, Coupang, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, IMM, and existing investors back Contoro to accelerate AI-driven warehouse automation Warehouse automation is hitting a major ...

April 11, 2025

Dr. Gabriel Cossio’s Team Selected for Prestigious NSF National I-Corps Program

[caption id="attachment_25942" align="alignright" width="152"] Dr. Gabriel Cossio - Entrepreneurial Lead[/caption] Dr. Gabriel Cossio, founder of Nanoscale Labs and a current Activate Fellow, has ...

December 19, 2024

X-Roots Digs Deep in Customer Discovery

I-Corps Training Alters Startup’s Target Market, Service Offering In academia, the formula for success is publish or perish. In startups, the saying might as well be pivot or perish. Case in ...

December 19, 2024

Oil Spill Prevention System Shaped by I-Corps Training

Early on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cascaded into the Murphy Oil Refinery in Chalmette. An above-ground storage tank holding 65,000 barrels of oil stood in ...

December 3, 2024

Smarter Reality, LLC Raises Millions Through SBIR Funding

Frank Coppersmith, CEO of Smarter Reality, LLC, has raised millions through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, helping to propel the company to new heights. As a participant in ...