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University of Toronto Robotics Institute Professor Steven Waslander, a world leading expert on 3D object detection for self-driving vehicles, was asked by CBC’s Metro Morning to weigh in on Tesla drivers being allowed to test hands-free features in Toronto's downtown core
Professor Angela Schoellig of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) has earned an Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
Goldie Nejat is the Canada Research Chair in Robots for Society, a Full Professor at the U of Toronto, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Inst. She is the Founder and Director of the Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab.
Congratulations to Prof Yu Sun on the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Prof Sun’s award “For foundational contributions to robotics and automation at micro-nano scales and pioneering contributions to robotic cell manipulation”.
Prof Yu Sun, Director, University of Toronto Robotics Institute, and Prof Richard Voyles, Daniel C. Lewis Professor of the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University, (left and right in the photo) together organized the ETH MSRL Robotics Symposium: The Fantastic Voyage of Robotics - 20th anniversary of the Multi- Scale Robotics Lab.
Professor Mihai “Mishu” Duduta (MIE) is among the recipients of the Banting Research Foundation’s 2022 Discovery Award.
Andreas Geiger, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Tübingen, is part of a team of researchers honoured with the prestigious Longuet-Higgins prize at this year’s IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). In addition to Geiger, Philip Lenz and Raquel Urtasun received the prestigious award for their joint work on the “KITTI Vision Benchmark,” which they have been running and developing since 2012.
Watch Prof Jessica Burgner-Kahrs’ TEDx Toronto Renew 2022 talk to find out what obstacles she overcame to create tiny robots that move like an elephant’s trunk.
We just launched the Institute’s Robotics Leadership Program - learn more about why we started it.
A team of researchers led by University of Toronto Professor Tim Barfoot is using a new strategy that allows robots to avoid colliding with people by predicting the future locations of dynamic obstacles in their path.
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