U of T Robotics News
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.
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.