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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.

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

A man in a suit stands in front of a slightly out of focus brown building in the background.

Professor Yu Sun receives U of T President’s Impact Award

March 10, 2023

The award recognizes Sun’s outstanding contributions to robotics at micro-nano scales

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Improved visual perception method could help robots navigate crowded spaces

November 2, 2022

U of T Engineering researchers have developed a novel network structure that joins depth perception and egomotion estimation to improve the accuracy of both

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

May 13, 2022

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

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