Posts Tagged: UTIAS

UTIAS Invaded by Crawling, Swimming, Flying Robots!

Robots of all shapes and sizes crawled, swam and flew at U of T’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and York University recently as the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) field trials came to town. The field trials took…

Communitech and UTIAS: Tapping the Potential of Space

The first things you notice upon entry to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Space Flight Laboratory are the bright flecks twinkling against the inky blackness – in the granite floors, not the sky. This is, after…

Robots Help Celebrate the Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics

The appetizers may have been organic, but the server was mechanical at a reception held April 15 to celebrate the University of Toronto Engineering’s Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics. The reception was held to celebrate the Institute, which was established…

National Engineering Month 2013

National Engineering Month (NEM) is the biggest national celebration of engineering and technology. Across Canada, engineering schools and volunteers stage more than 500 events and activities to bring more awareness to the exciting and rewarding world of engineering. This year’s…

No Robots? No Problem!

When UTIAS Professor Reza Emami began teaching a new AER525 Robotics course recently, he had a problem: No robots. At first, Emami and his students had to make do with rudimentary simulations. Eventually he managed to procure a few tabletop robots. However,…

UTIAS Shines BRITE With World’s Smallest Space Telescopes

A pair of space telescope satellites, designed by U of T Engineering’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), are now circling the Earth, prepared to find and study the brightest stars in the sky. Measuring only 20 centimetres a side, and weighing…
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