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U of T Engineering has the largest and most diverse robotics program in Canada, and together with a range of strategic industrial partners we are ushering in a future where robots will extend human capabilities and improve lives.

A composite photo of Leipciger, Chau and Sedra

Three members of the U of T Engineering community appointed to the Order of Canada

July 8, 2025

Professor Tom Chau (BME), Professor Emeritus Adel Sedra (ECE) and alumnus Nathan Leipciger (ECE 5T5, Hon LLD 2019) are among 83 individuals appointed by the Governor General of Canada

These tiny robotic tools powered by magnetic fields could enable minimally invasive brain surgery

March 26, 2025

Professor Eric Diller (MIE) and his collaborators have created a set of tools only a few millimetres in diameter, to grip, pull and cut tissue

Kejah Bascon is photographed smiling, wearing glasses and a white t-shirt with decorative fruit imagery.

IBET Momentum Fellow Kejah Bascon aims to innovate robotic neurosurgical tools using a human factors approach

October 3, 2024

MIE PhD student is looking to make surgical robotic tools more user-friendly

From left to right: U of T Engineering professor Aryan Rezaei Rad, UBC professor AnnaLisa Meyboom and U of T Daniels Faculty's Nicholas Hoban stand in front of an installation of a pavilion at U of T.

Digital fabrication design course brings engineering and architecture students together

September 19, 2024

Robot Made 2024 enabled undergraduate and graduate participants to engage in computational design and digital fabrication of timber systems

Artemis, the aUToronto's autonomous vehicle approaches the final obstacle of the intersection challenge: a model of a deer.

U of T’s self-driving car team places first at 2024 AutoDrive Challenge™ II

July 25, 2024

This is aUToronto’s sixth first-place finish in seven years

A visualization of a nuScenes dataset used by the researchers. The image is a mosaic of the six different camera views around the car with the object bounding boxes rendered overtop of the images.

U of T Engineering researchers are making self-driving cars safer by enhancing tracking abilities

May 22, 2024

The research, led by Professor Steven Waslander (UTIAS), will be presented at the 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Japan

Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski wears a prototype of his lab’s AI-powered smart glasses (Photo: Polina Teif)

‘Bionic professor’ aims to transform the field of wearable robotics

June 27, 2023

Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski (MIE) is developing AI-powered technologies that interface with humans

This animated video shows the gripper tool in action: magnetic fields make the tiny hand move.

U of T Engineering researchers advance magnetic microrobotic surgical tools for minimally invasive brain surgery

May 24, 2023

The team, led by Professor Eric Diller (MIE), is studying the feasibility of the tool for improving the precision of neurosurgery tasks

The average life expectancy after a glioblastoma diagnosis is around 15 months (Image: Li Chen, Siqi Ou)

Robotic nano-surgery shown effective at treating aggressive brain cancer in mice

April 11, 2023

U of T Robotics and SickKids researchers are using nanorobotic swarm surgery to treat glioblastoma in multiple in vivo mouse trials

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