U of T Robotics News
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.
11-19-2020 Seminar: Stanford’s Kiril Solovey on large-scale multi-robot systems
Don’t miss Kiril Solovey’s seminar coming up November 19 at 3pm ET. Subscribe to our mailing list with your UofT address to join.
11-26-2021 Seminar: Danica Kragic on development and open problems in robot perception and interaction
Coming up: Danica Kragic’s seminar Perceiving, Acting and Collaborating coming up November 26 at 11am ET, where she will discuss the development and open problems in robot perception and interaction.
11-06-2020 Seminar: Stanford’s Marco Pavone on Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interactions
Don’t miss Marco Pavone’s seminar coming up November 6 at 1pm ET. Subscribe to our mailing list with your UofT address to join.
aUToronto wins SAE AutoDrive Challenge three years running!
aUToronto has placed first in an intercollegiate challenge to transform an electric car into a self-driving one — their third consecutive win. The team also took the top overall prize for the most cumulative points over the three years of the AutoDrive Challenge.
Eric Diller on Robots Podcast
Robohub Podcast interviewer Audrow Nash interviews Eric Diller, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, on wireless micro-scale robots that could eventually be used in human surgery.
How the pandemic is shaping robotics: New UofT Robotics white paper
Written in plain language and free of technical jargon, this paper aims to provide decision-makers with a primer on the use of robots and their potential in the fight against COVID. We survey how other countries around the world are making use of robots, describe the current state of affairs in Canada, and provide recommendations on how we can better leverage our robotics capabilities to benefit Canadians in this challenging time.
08-18-2020 Seminar: MIT’s Russ Tedrake on Feedback Control for Manipulation
Control theory has an answer for just about everything, but …