U of T Robotics News

UofT Robotics students win Best Paper Award at IEEE SSRR 2018

September 4, 2018

Students Kaicheng Zhang and Farzad Niroui from Goldie Nejat’s lab win Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (IEEE SSRR).

Prof. Goldie Nejat with elder-care robot prototypes. Photo courtesy Liz Do.

Goldie Nejat’s work featured by The Globe & Mail

August 27, 2018

The Globe & Mail has featured Prof. Goldie Nejat’s work and ideas on how new technology can be used to help a growing population of older people to live independently in their own homes longer.

Prof. Eric Diller's students, Christopher Lucasius and Lucas Botelho, pose with their microrobotics system, which won second place in the “Autonomous Manipulation and Accuracy Challenge” event at the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge. Photo courtesy Microrobotics Lab.

UofT team wins second place in the 2018 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge

June 29, 2018

Prof. Eric Diller’s Microrobotics Lab wins second place in the “Autonomous Manipulation and Accuracy Challenge” event at the 2018 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.

Urtasun: New algorithm that jointly reasons autonomous driving tasks

June 29, 2018

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s department of computer science and Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in Toronto have developed an algorithm that jointly reasons about multiple self-driving tasks in as little as 30 milliseconds per frame.

Yu Sun

Yu Sun advances to Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems

June 12, 2018

Congratulations to Prof. Yu Sun, who has been awarded a chair advancement to Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems.