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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.

Zeus, a self-driving electric car created by a team of students from U of T Engineering, parked outside the MarsDome at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. The team has placed first in the intercollegiate Autodrive Challenge the last four years in a row. (Photo: Chude Qian)

AutoDrive Challenge™: U of T Engineering places first for the fourth straight year

June 15, 2021

A team of more than 70 undergraduate and graduate students has designed and built an award-winning autonomous electric vehicle

Professor Eric Diller (MIE) is collaborating with medical researchers to develop dexterous, magnetically controlled microrobots that could perform minimally invasive brain surgery. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T researchers develop first-of-its-kind dexterous microrobots for neurosurgery

April 30, 2021

The tiny magnetic gripper tools could one day be used to perform minimally invasive brain surgery

Zeus, a self-driving electric car created by a team of students from U of T Engineering, dominated the first series of the intercollegiate Autodrive Challenge. Now, the team is preparing to compete in the SAE Autodrive Challenge II. (Photo: Chude Qian)

U of T Engineering to compete in SAE AutoDrive Challenge™ II

April 12, 2021

aUToronto team dominated first series of the competition, winning three straight years — now they’ve been invited back to take on a new round of challengers

A U of T Engineering team, led by ECE graduate students, designed a UV lamp fitted with distance sensors to more efficiently disinfect contaminated surfaces. It has recently been prototyped. (Image: Jonathan Qu)

Smart UV lamp could fight COVID-19 and other diseases

March 2, 2021

ECE graduate students lead a large U of T Engineering team to bring new device from inception to prototype

Professor Tim Barfoot (UTIAS), seen here at the launch of the Robotics Institute, held in May 2019, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (Photo: Liz Do)

Professor Tim Barfoot elected an IEEE Fellow

November 30, 2020

Honour recognizes outstanding record of accomplishments in visual navigation of mobile robots for a variety of applications

The new joint centre on robotics for elder care is led by professors Alex Mihailidis (IBBME, Medicine) and Yan Fu at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. (Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn)

Robotics for elder care: New joint centre fosters global collaboration

June 1, 2020

Researchers at U of T Engineering and Huazhong University of Science and Technology look to commercialize assistive robots that could address gaps in elder care in Canada and China

U of T Engineering researchers, innovators to pitch ideas for Ontario’s growth at annual economic summit

November 13, 2019

Professors Goldie Nejat, Hani Naguib and alumnus Allen Lau will pitch their ideas at the Ontario Economic Summit

Soft robot programmed to move like an inchworm

October 4, 2019

U of T Engineering Professor Hani Naguib’s team takes inspiration from nature to design tiny flexible robots outfitted with smart materials

Shuailong Zhang (left) and Aaron Wheeler, have designed microrobots (working at the sub-millimetre scale) that can be operated by optoelectronic tweezers for cell manipulation. (Photo: Dan Haves)

Microrobots to change the way we work with cellular material

July 8, 2019

Designed in Professor Aaron Wheeler’s (Chemistry, IBBME) lab, these optoelectronic microrobots can load, transport and deliver cellular material

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