U of T Robotics News
Profs. Schoellig, Garg & McIlraith named CIFAR AI Chairs
CIFAR, the Canadian-based global organization that supports collaboration and advancement in research, launched its Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy in 2017 — the Canada CIFAR AI Chair program is a cornerstone of that strategy.
12-04-19 Robotics Seminar with Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy
Move Fast and (Don’t) Break Things: Commercializing Robotics at the Speed of Venture Capital
Wednesday December 4 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
LM 161, Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, 80 St. George Street
Watch Angela Schoellig’s keynote at CoRL2019
Angela Schoellig was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in Osaka, Japan. Check out her presentation on Youtube.
Join the 2020 Hamelyn Surgical Robotics Challenge
CIGITI is looking for undergraduate and graduate students to form the next team to enter the 2020 Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge.
Animesh Garg in Nature Outlook
Animesh Garg has been interviewed in Nature Outlook in a story that looks at the future of surgery.
Yu Sun named Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Sun’s robotic ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) technology resulted in the world’s first robotically created human fertilization. He has also developed the world’s first automated robotic cell manipulation system for drug screening and bladder cancer detection.
Surgical robotics seminar with UCSD’s Michael Yip
Towards Autonomous Surgical Robots: New Strategies in Design, Control, and AI
Date & Time: Fri, Aug 23, 11am-noon
Location: Pratt 266
UTM robotics cluster hosts Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor Liz Dowdeswell visits UTM’s growing robotics research cluster.
‘We have really ambitious plans’: Robotics research gears up at UTM
Meet UTM’s recent robotics hires: Animesh Garg, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs & Florian Shkurti. And this is simply the start of UTM’s robotics cluster: there are plans to add between two and four additional faculty to the group.
New soft robotics paper by Hani Naguib in Nature
Nature Scientific Reports has published a new paper on soft robotics by Prof. Hani Naguib.
aUToronto now hiring for the 2019-2020 season
U of T’s self-driving car team is hiring students for Team Lead and General Member positions. Learn more.
It’s official: We are robotics headquarters at UofT
Starting today, the University of Toronto Robotics Institute is the official central headquarters for robotics at UofT.
Angela Schoellig awarded Early Career Spotlight at RSS2019
Prof. Angela Schoellig was awarded an Early Career Spotlight at the 2019 Robotics Science & Systems (RSS) conference in Freiburg, Germany. Watch her Spotlight talk.
Jonathan Kelly: New Canada Research Chair in collaborative robotics
Congrats to Jonathan Kelly, our new Canada Research Chair in collaborative robotics.
aUToronto wins AutoDrive Challenge second year in a row
The aUToronto team and their self-driving car, Zeus, beat out seven other universities to defend their first-place title in the AutoDrive Challenge.
Robotics Institute to strengthen multidisciplinary research at U of T Engineering
The new University of Toronto Robotics Institute establishes a central headquarters for world-leading robotics research across U of T and beyond.
Two best papers, four award finalists at ICRA 2019
UofT researchers presented 25 papers at ICRA this year, covering everything from micro-manipulators to autonomous vehicles and drone swarms, to robot assistants.
U of T Robotics Institute Coming This July
Coming this July, the Robotics Institute will evolve into the official central headquarters for robotics at UofT.
No assembly required: Researchers automate microrobotic designs
Researchers in Prof. Eric Diller’s lab create magnetized microrobots — the size of the head of a pin — that can travel through fluid-filled vessels and organs within the human body.
UTIAS professor teaches robotics in Myanmar
Professor Jonathan Kelly (UTIAS) recently returned from a week in Yangon, Myanmar, where he partnered with a startup accelerator to teach robotics to 25 local university students.
Researchers create nano-bot to probe inside human cells
Researcher’s in Prof. Yu Sun’s lab have built a set of magnetic ‘tweezers’ that can position a nano-scale bead inside a human cell in three dimensions with unprecedented precision.
Robotics – A Message from Dean Cristina Amon
Together with our industrial partners and collaborators, we are designing a future where robots will extend human capabilities and improve lives at home, as well as around the world.
UofT Robotics students win Best Paper Award at IEEE SSRR 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).
Goldie Nejat’s work featured by The Globe & Mail
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.
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