U of T Robotics News
Eric Diller awarded McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction
Prof. Eric Diller has been awarded the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction, in recognition of his exceptional performance and distinction in early career research. Diller’s research focuses on developing miniature robots which can be wirelessly controlled just like full-sized robots. His goal is to enable a radically new approach to medical procedures and create an entirely new set of scientific tools.
Yu Sun receives Connaught Innovation Award
Sun and collaborators plan to improve on their current heart perfusion system designs by integrating sensors that measure the pressure and flow of blood in and out of the heart. Data from these sensors can be analyzed using machine learning techniques to provide a real-time, quantitative assessment of the heart’s function.
Public Lecture | Rethinking Robotics: Worms, tongues and elephant trunks
Join U of T alumni and friends for a lecture on biology-inspired continuum robots and their role in minimally invasive surgeries.
Eric Diller receives prestigious IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Prof. Eric Diller has received the prestigious IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation for his contributions to magnetic wireless micro-scale robots.
U of T-Waterloo research data to put self-driving cars to ultimate test: Canadian winter
Newly released data from a collaboration between the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and Scale AI will help train future self-driving cars to handle the challenges of winter […]
Goldie Nejat interviewed in National Geographic Magazine
Nejat’s socially assistive robots are designed to engage with humans and could help fill an urgent need: caregiving for the elderly.
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
U of T researchers, innovators to pitch ideas for Ontario’s growth at annual economic summit
By Rahul Kalvapalle Pepper, a socially assistive robot developed in the lab of U of T’s Goldie Nejat, is designed to detect and respond to human voices and gestures (photo […]
Two U of T researchers at centre of world’s first robot-assisted brain surgery: The Globe and Mail
Two University of Toronto researchers are at the centre of the world’s first robot-assisted brain surgery, testing a system that could allow them to operate remotely on stroke and aneurysm patients in the near future.
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.
Alumni spotlight: How Raffaello D’Andrea creates magic with flying machines
There aren’t many engineers who can say they’ve worked with Drake and Metallica, but Raffaello D’Andrea can.
As founder of Verity Studios, D’Andrea (EngSci 9T1) and his team specialize in creating indoor light displays for live events with dozens of autonomous drones flying in tandem. The Zurich-based company is known for its precision drone technology and its ability to provide a complete solution, from development to execution.
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.