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Alumnus Lyndon Chan hopes to boost political engagement with Parlawatch, an online tool that scrapes official transcripts from Question Period and uses natural language processing to generate daily summaries. (Photo courtesy: Lyndon Chan)

Startup led by U of T alumni uses AI to help Canadians track parliamentary proceedings

Nightingale.ai, an AI-enabled platform that enables physiotherapists and their patients to connect remotely, is one of five winners of Hatchery Demo Day 2021. (Photo courtesy: Nightingale.ai)

Five startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s virtual Hatchery Demo Day 2021

Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your Wi-Fi signal

Pepper is a socially interactive robot used by a team in the Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab at U of T Engineering to study persuasion and authority in robot-human interactions. (Photo: Liz Do)

Humanoid robots that behave with less authority are more persuasive