U of T Robotics News
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 …
07-27-2020 Seminar: NYU’s Ludovic Righetti on Algorithms for Robust Multi-Contact Behaviors
Reasoning about physical interactions is a computationally daunting task, yet contacts are at the core of any manipulation or locomotion behavior.
UofT Robotics Students Win RSS Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations to STARS Lab members Matt Giamou and Valentin Peretroukhin, winners of the 2020 Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) Best Student Paper Award.
UofT at RSS 2020
Check out all the UofT contributions to the 2020 Robotics Science and Systems conference.
Three UofT Robotics Faculty on the Soft Robotics Podcast
Enjoy these Soft Robotics Podcast interviews with UofT Robotics faculty, Xinyu Liu, Eric Diller and Jessica Burgner-Kahrs.
Weiss Mini-Symposium Talk: Advances in Continuum Robots for Surgery
Watch this 20-minute talk from the Weiss Institute’s Mini Symposium on Surgical Robotics.
Animesh Garg’s research covered on Venture Beat
Check out this AI system that learns to model how fabrics interact by watching videos.
Prof. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs appointed Associate Director of UofT Robotics Institute
In recognition of her exemplary leadership uniting the University of Toronto’s robotics community, the UofT Robotics Institute is pleased to welcome Prof. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs as Associate Director, effective July 1, 2020.
06-29-2020 Seminar: MIT’s Luca Carlone on Spatial Perception for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Safety-critical applications of robotics in the wild, ranging from self-driving vehicles to search & rescue, demand a new generation of algorithms.
06-19-20 HeRo Seminar: University of Leeds’ Pietro Valdastri on Robotic Flexible Endoscopy
Exploring autonomy in robotic flexible endoscopy Prof. Pietro Valdastri Science and Technologies of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab, University of Leeds Fri. June 19, 10-11am ET Register for the UofT Robotics […]