U of T Robotics News
04.09.2021 HeRo Seminar: Regulatory Issues in Medical Robotics from Health Canada
Friday, April 9 1-2:30pm Eastern Description: Jade will be giving an overview on general regulation environment for medical devices in Canada. Greg will be speaking on the necessary technical evidence […]
03-26-21 Dialogue Series: Kathrin Doefler and Brian Ringley
The Robotics Institute is launching the Dialogue Series. Two speakers will each present on a related topic and engage in a dialogue with each other and the audience. On March 26 tune in for Robotics in Fabrication and Construction.
Rehab & Community Care Magazine reprints our op-ed on how robots can help with long term care crisis
Alex Mihailidis has opinion piece published again; Leveraging robotics will appear in Spring 2021 issue of Rehab & Community Care Medicine, greater reach for robotics solutions in long-term care homes.
03.08.2021 HeRo Seminar: Thomas Looi
Thomas Looi of SickKids gives seminar on Minimally Invasive Robotic Tools – Neurosurgery and ENT
32 UofT Robotics papers accepted at ICRA 2021
UofT researchers will present 32 papers at ICRA, the premiere international robotics conference this year.
Igor Gilitschenski named Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Incoming robotics professor at UTM is also a Research Scientist with Toyota Research Institute
Spotlight on Eric Diller’s research in micro-scale surgery: Feb 3, 2021 @ noon
Research Spotlight on RI prof Eric Diller: Micro-Scale Surgery: Using Magnetic Fields to Control Tiny Robots in the Brain and Gut
Xinyu Liu elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Robotics Institute Professor Xinyu Liu has been named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME).
03-19-2021 Seminar: UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg on the “New Wave” in grasping research
Goldberg will give a history of grasping research and present new results from his lab on grasping diverse and previously-unknown objects.
Maria Yablonina moderates “Imagining the Future through Design”
Robotics Institute and Daniels faculty Maria Yoblonina will be moderating a discussion with artist and designer Sputniko! about her work at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling.
HeRo/CREATE Healthcare Robotics Summit
The HeRo/CREATE graduate training program at UofT’s Robotics Institute is hosting its first healthcare robotics summit next month, on February 8th and 19th. This will be a broad-based 2-day overview of the scope of Canadian healthcare robotics.
01-11-21 HeRo Seminar: Russ Taylor of Johns Hopkins
Russ Taylor of Johns Hopkins University speaks on Human-robot partnerships in interventional medicine and infectious disease crises
Angela Schoellig elected to IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee
Schoellig is one of only six new members elected to the RAS Administrative Committee this year.
Valentin Peretroukhin receives UTIAS’ Top PhD Thesis Award
Valentin Peretroukhin was recognized with the Gordon N. Patterson award for the top PhD thesis at UTIAS this year for his dissertation titled Learned Improvements to the Visual Egomotion Pipeline.
New course alert: Introduction to Healthcare Robotics (MIE 1080)
Professor Yu Sun will be coordinating a new course next term as part of the HeRo/CREATE graduate training program from NSERC. The course, Introduction to Healthcare Robotics, is part of the program for HeRo trainees, and is open to all students at the university.
Robotics grad awarded UTM Postdoc Fellowship
The Continuum Robotics Lab’s Quentin Peyron has been awarded a UTM Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the UTM office of the Vice-Principal Research.
Two UofT Robotics champions named to Order of Canada
Cristina Amon and James Drake have been named to the Order of Canada, Canada’s highly prestigious award honouring those who have made extraordinary contributions to the nation.
Op-ed on how robots can help with long term care crisis by Alex Mihailidis
Alex Mihailidis has published an opinion piece in Healthy Debate titled Leveraging robotics to ease the long-term care crisis.
12-07-2020 Seminar: MIT’s David Rosen on Certifiably Correct SLAM
In this talk, Rosen presents an algorithm that is capable of efficiently recovering certifiably globally optimal SLAM solutions in many practical settings.
12-03-2020 Seminar: NVIDIA’s Dieter Fox on robust manipulation in complex environments
Don’t miss Dieter Fox’s seminar coming up December 3 at 1pm ET. Subscribe to our mailing list with your UofT address to join.
Tim Barfoot elected IEEE Fellow
IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Yu Sun wins CSME Award
The CSME awards are presented biannually to members of the society for their outstanding contributions to specific areas of mechanical engineering in Canada.
11-23-2020 HeRo Seminar: UCSD’s Angelique Taylor on social navigation for mobile robots
Don’t miss Angelique Taylor’s seminar coming up November 23 at 1pm ET. Subscribe to our mailing list with your UofT address to join.
2020 Fall Workshop and 3MT Recap
The pandemic put a new twist on our fall student workshop, but we made the most of it. Get the recap here.