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Dr. Hugues Thomas (UTIAS) and his collaborators created a new method for robot navigation based on self-supervised deep learning (Photo: Safa Jinje)

UTIAS researchers design socially aware robots to move safely around people

Collaboration between Professor Tim Barfoot (UTIAS) and Apple Machine Learning applies new approach for navigating spaces with moveable obstacles

University of Toronto researchers Tara Colenbrander Nelson and Dr. Kelly Whaley Martin collecting water samples at Hudbay’s 777 mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba for use in their innovative “reactive sulfur” monitoring technique. (Photo: Lesley Warren)

Academic-industry partnership leads to improved methods for managing sulfur compounds in mining sites

Hudbay receives regulatory approval for new monitoring technique co-developed with University of Toronto Engineering Professor Lesley Warren (CivMin)

Researchers from U of T’s Centre for Social Services Engineering are helping to develop a platform that harnesses AI to improve wayfinding for Canadians seeking social services (Photo: iStock/Ankit Sah)

Using AI to help Canadians find social services: U of T researchers team up with industry and government

Researchers from U of T’s Centre for Social Services Engineering are helping to develop a platform that harnesses AI to improve wayfinding for Canadians seeking social services

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

NSERC Synergy Award celebrates decades of collaboration on nanoscale electron microscopy and robotics

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

A grey box is seen attached to a pillar on the platform of the Toronto Transit Commission's St. George subway station.

New trains and reduced friction braking improve air quality in Toronto’s subways

New study by U of T Engineering and Health Canada researchers shows how train and braking technology can substantially affect what riders breathe

The ongoing pandemic has tested Canada’s vaccine production capabilities and highlighted the need for a national strategy. (Photo: Spencer Davis via Unsplash)

With vaccines top of mind, U of T brings together experts to address Canada’s biomanufacturing gaps

The workshop aimed to identify key training and knowledge gaps that must be overcome for the advancement of Canadian biomanufacturing

Gamma Knife radiosurgery, performed mainly on the brain, uses medical imaging to create a treatment plan, which can be optimized by a quantum-inspired technology called the Digital Annealer. (Photo by Nikita Karchevskyi via Envato)

Researchers apply quantum-inspired technology to reduce radiation treatment planning time

Digital Annealer technology application is latest development in longstanding collaboration between U of T Engineering and Fujitsu Laboratories

Lab Manager Emily Hopkins adjusts the Vici HPLC in the Aspuru-Guzik laboratory. (Photo by Johnny Guatto)

New Acceleration Consortium at University of Toronto applies artificial intelligence to discovery of advanced materials

Global coalition aims to accelerate research of new materials that will increase affordability and sustainability in a wide range of applications

Max Planck Society President Martin Stratmann (left) and U of T President Meric Gertler participated in a virtual launch event for the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science & Technology (photo by Axel Griesch für MPG and Johnny Guatto)

U of T and Max Planck Society establish centre to study neural science and technology

The Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science & Technology aims to develop and deploy advanced technologies to study brain circuits for the improvement of human health, while charting new territory in computing