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Move Fast and (Don’t) Break Things: Clearpath CTO Ryan Gapriey on Commercializing Robotics at the Speed of Venture Capital

LM 161, University of Toronto Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As CTO and co-founder of Clearpath - the largest and fastest growing robotics company in Canada - Ryan Gariepy has filled almost every role in a robotics startup possible, most of them with very little warning.

Come listen to Ryan talk about notable failures: common problems for robotics startups, and how best to avoid them. Part of the U of T Robotics Institute Seminar Series.

Robotics Institute Seminar: James R. Forbes (McGill University)

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robot Navigation Using Ultra-Wideband Radio Join the live stream Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios technology is capable of generating distance measurements between a pair of transceivers with approximately 10 cm of standard deviation. UWB is inexpensive, lightweight, and can be simultaneously used as a data transfer medium, thus making it particularly attractive for small, mobile robots. UWB […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Francois Pomerleau (Université Laval)

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Autonomous driving on snow and ice Join the live stream As the promise of autonomous cars keeps being delayed, more and more questions are raised about the accessibility of this technology in remote locations. Moreover, extreme meteorological events are on the rise with the concretization of climate change. This new reality stresses the importance of […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Aran Nayebi (Carnegie Mellon)

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence Join the seminar in MY580 or on Zoom Modern AI faces (at least!) two challenges: (1) building agents capable of autonomy and life-long learning, and (2) embodying them to perform these tasks in the real-world. In this talk, I will discuss our approach to these questions, and show […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Mahdi Tavakoli (University of Alberta)

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Intelligent Robotics for Human-Machine Collaboration in Healthcare Join on Zoom Surgical, therapeutic, and diagnostic interventions can be significantly enhanced using computer-integrated robotic systems with real-time decision-making capabilities that work under the direct, shared, or supervisory control of surgeons and therapists. Incorporating appropriate levels of autonomy in systems for healthcare delivery can lower the mental and […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Sergey Stavisky, “A multi-modal brain-computer interface for restoring lost communication”

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A multi-modal brain-computer interface for restoring lost communication Join in-person in MY580 or online (Zoom) Restoring the ability to communicate to people with neurological injuries has long been a goal of neurotechnology research; today, this dream is on the verge of fruition with ongoing commercial cursor and click brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trials. I will […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Tobi Fischer, “Sensing Change: Brain-Inspired Navigation Beyond GPS”

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sensing Change: Brain-Inspired Navigation Beyond GPS Join in MY580 or Zoom Abstract Knowing your location is fundamental to navigation - for humans, animals, and autonomous systems alike. But how can robots and other autonomous agents determine their position with confidence and precision in environments where satellite systems are unavailable or unreliable? The central theme of […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Risto Ojala, “Perception solutions for enabling automated driving in winter conditions”

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Perception solutions for enabling automated driving in winter conditions Join in MY580 or online (Zoom) This talk presents methods and findings from research on perception solutions for automated driving in winter conditions, carried out at the Autonomy & Mobility Laboratory, Aalto University. Winter conditions pose several challenges for automated vehicle perception pipelines, which currently limit […]

Robotics Institute Seminar: Nick Rhinehart, “Learning what matters for model-based robotics”

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Room 580, or on Zoom 55 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join in MY580 or online (Zoom) Learning what matters for model-based robotics Many important robot applications are difficult to capture precisely with manually designed objectives, and involve dynamics that are too complex for manually designed predictive models. In this talk, I will present recent research on reward learning and model-based methods for robotics. I will […]

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