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Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed a palm-sized device to monitor glucose levels in people with diabetes using radar and artificial intelligence (AI), not painful finger pricks to draw blood.

The new technology is safe, fast and accurate, and works by sending radio waves through the skin and into blood vessels when users place the tip of their finger on a touchpad.

The much-anticipated REEM-C recently arrived on campus and has already started an extensive training program.

The humanoid robot is described as the slightly smaller and lighter brother of TALOS, the full-size black and purple robot that was welcomed with great fanfare at Engineering 7 almost two years ago.
 

Katja Mombaur greets REEM-C, the University's newest humanoid robot 

Waterloo Engineering researchers have found that COVID-19 transmission during a dental appointment could be significantly decreased with proper air filtration.

To mark International Education Week, three Waterloo Engineering students discuss highlights of living and learning abroad in short video presentations. 

Mayyasah Akour, Emma Belliveau and Aleksandar Lakić, discuss their unique experiences studying at universities in Singapore, Turkey and France in 2019.

Projects by students from Waterloo Engineering took both runner-up prizes in the Canadian leg of the James Dyson Award competition for student inventors.

SmartPatrol, which uses computer vision to prevent injuries at ski resorts, and Scope, which is developing a better zoom function for smartphone cameras, now move on to the international portion of the 27-country competition.

A startup company with deep roots at Waterloo Engineering has secured $350,000 in seed funding to commercialize technology for the gaming industry.

John Yeow, a Waterloo Engineering faculty member and the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanodevices, has been honoured with IEEE Canada’s Outstanding Engineer Award for 2020.

Four students from the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo took second place in an international design competition involving the use of steel.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has had his Canada Research Chair renewed by the federal government.

Lukasz Golab, a professor of management sciences, will receive $500,000 over five years as the Canada Research Chair in Data for Good through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

An artificial intelligence (AI) company that grew out of research at Waterloo Engineering has secured $9 million in funding to grow.

Acerta Analytics was founded in 2016 by Greta Cutulenco, a graduate of the software engineering program, Sebastian Fischmeister, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and engineering PhD student Jean-Christophe Petkovich.