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Meet Pepper: An AI robot that will reduce wait times in hospitals

October 31, 2018

The newest robotic platform in Professor Goldie Nejat’s lab is designed to automate data intake and patient monitoring

“Human movement and behaviour are unpredictable, so we are seeing if robots can adapt and react to that,” says Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE).

Professor Goldie Nejat on AI’s impact on health care

October 25, 2018

“Human movement and behaviour are unpredictable, so we are seeing if robots can adapt and react to that,” says Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE)

Kristen Facciol (EngSci0T9) in the Mission Control Centre of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Facciol has become the 14th Canadian to earn a CSA/NASA Robotics Flight Controller Certficiation. (Courtesy: Kristen Facciol/NASA)

‘Completely surreal’: Kristen Facciol earns CSA/NASA Robotics Flight Controller Certification

October 25, 2018

Alumna becomes 14th Canadian — and fifth U of T Engineering graduate — to earn elite designation to control space robotics missions

UT-IMDI students and industry partners celebrate the completion of 38 projects motivated by industry challenges at a special dinner reception. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering students share multidisciplinary solutions to big industry challenges

October 11, 2018

Students in the University of Toronto’s Institute for Multidisciplinary Design and Innovation (UT-IMDI) share the results of their industry-sponsored projects at evening celebration

Professor Craig Steeves (UTIAS), right, assembles a quadrotor drone with Grade 10 students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ont. (Photo: Rikky Duivenvoorden)

UTIAS researchers launch drone outreach program in Thunder Bay

October 10, 2018

UTIAS researchers partner with Indigenous high school in Thunder Bay to teach students how to build a drone

Professor Michael Garton recently joined IBBME. (Credit: Jovana Drinjakovic)

How IBBME’s Michael Garton forged a career in research after being paralyzed in climbing accident

October 4, 2018

Professor Michael Garton (IBBME) is engineering human cells to mend throbbing pain in aging joints

Professor Timothy Chan (MIE), director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering. (Credit: Brian Tran)

Centre for Healthcare Engineering celebrates 10 years of innovation

October 3, 2018

Alumni, students and faculty come together to honour the decade-long pioneering work of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering

Professor Jason Anderson is among eight U of T Engineering researchers named to the 2018 cohort at the Vector Institute. (Credit: Jessica MacInnis)

Eight U of T Engineering researchers named Vector Institute Faculty Affiliates

September 28, 2018

The Vector Institute brings together leading researchers in deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) generally, from across Ontario

Professor Michael Carter (MIE) has been elected Fellow of the country’s highest health-related scholarly body, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the first industrial engineer to hold the rank. (Credit: Brian Tran)

Michael Carter elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

September 14, 2018

MIE professor honoured for his pioneering research in health care engineering, becomes first industrial engineer inducted into the CAHS

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