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Robotics research led by PhD student Brok Laschowski was featured by Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA, during his keynote at the 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Inspired by the biological vision system, Laschowski is developing a vision-based environment-adaptive controller for robotic leg prostheses and exoskeletons powered by deep learning. 

Exoskeleton research led by PhD candidate Brokoslaw Laschowski and supervised by Professor John McPhee was featured on BBC News [video].

Robotics researchers are developing exoskeleton legs capable of thinking and making control decisions on their own using sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The system combines computer vision and deep-learning AI to mimic how able-bodied people walk by seeing their surroundings and adjusting their movements.

Photograph - Rowan Ferrabee (left) CTO of Trajekt Sports, and Joe John (right) Owner of Guycan Machine Works.

Parya Khoshroo, MoRG member and MASc student in Systems Design Engineering, received 2nd Prize in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the University of Waterloo for her research innovations in stroke rehabilitation robotics and virtual reality. Congratulations Parya!

Alongside Professor John McPhee, MoRG alumnus Drs. Naser Mehrabi and Mohammad Shourijeh recently served as Topic Editors for the Special Issue "Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation" in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

John McPhee, Tenured Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been awarded the 2019 Ontario Professional Engineers Association (OPEA) Medal of Engineering Excellence for his influential contributions toward the a

Professors Arash Arami and John McPhee have been awarded the John R. Evans Leaders Fund by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (valued at $182,000) for their collaborative research “Neuromechanics-Based Assistive Robotics: Towards Optimal Personalized Robotic Assistance”.

PhD candidate Brok Laschowski was awarded 4th Prize Best Poster for his research on computer vision and deep learning for autonomous control of robotic lower-limb prostheses and exoskeletons at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (over 450 poster submissions).

The Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) question and answer with Professor John McPhee [interview link].