Robotics

A scan depicting brain cancer. April 14, 2023 Robotic nano-surgery shown to be effective at treating brain cancer in pre-clinical models
A portrait of Raquel Urtasun with her arms crossed, wearing a Waabi T-shirt January 20, 2023 Raquel Urtasun’s self-driving startup Waabi brings on Volvo as strategic investor: Reports
crowded downtown city street with many people walking across an intersection November 9, 2022 Researchers help robots navigate crowded spaces with new visual perception method
November 8, 2022 Students push the boundaries of research and innovation: Groundbreakers S2 Ep.4
"" September 29, 2022 ‘It’s a really cool place’: U of T Mississauga students get hands-on experience in new robotics teaching lab
South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol shakes hands with U of T President Meric Gertler outside of Simcoe Hall at the University of Toronto, St. George campus September 26, 2022 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol visits U of T for AI roundtable
"" May 17, 2022 Researchers design 'socially aware' robots that can anticipate – and safely avoid – people on the move
"" October 15, 2021 Robots in the wild: U of T's Florian Shkurti on overcoming 'edge cases' in machine learning
"" September 24, 2021 If robots need to persuade humans, they shouldn't resemble authority figures: U of T study
Goldie Nejat poses with her robots at the robotics institute September 2, 2021 Groundbreakers: U of T initiative brings together experts to address major societal issues
RoboWorm July 29, 2021 Pushing the boundaries of micro-robotics, U of T researchers create 'RoboWorm'
Jessica burgner-Kahrs works on a robot in her lab May 12, 2021 How a slender, snake-like robot could give doctors new ways to save lives
Eric Diller of U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering May 3, 2021 U of T researchers develop microrobots to conduct minimally invasive brain surgery
June 4, 2020 With international partner, U of T launches research centre focused on robotics and elder care
Photo of Pepper the robot November 12, 2019 U of T researchers, innovators to pitch ideas for Ontario's growth at annual economic summit
Portrait of Alán Aspuru-Guzik taken indoors October 9, 2019 U of T's Alán Aspuru-Guzik on self-driving laboratories that use robotics, AI to automate routine parts of experiments
PhD candidate Yu-Chen (Gary) Sun and Professor Hani Naguib hold a glove made with smart materials in a laboratory October 8, 2019 U of T researchers' shape-shifting technology paves way for new generation of 'soft' robots
Photos of robots in a lab August 16, 2019 'We have really ambitious plans': Robotics research gears up at U of T Mississauga
Photo of Gillian Hadfield July 26, 2019 Gillian Hadfield appointed inaugural director of U of T’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society
Photo of researchers in lab July 11, 2019 U of T Engineering awarded three CREATE grants to train researchers, move knowledge from lab to real world