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John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, was featured by Radio-Canada to share his expertise on the rapidly evolving world of humanoid robotics and the recent World Humanoid Robot Games. Read the full article here.

Congratulations to Yuntian Wang and Professor John McPhee for the publication of "Model-based Variable Impedance Control of Active-Passive Upper-Limb Exoskeleton Assistance and Vibration Attenuation" in the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Congratulations to the 2026 MoRG graduates!

(Left to right in the photo: Bhavya Giri Goswami, Prof. John McPhee, Hisham Mohammad, Vasylysa Korovkina.)

The Motion Research Group's research on reducing UCL strain among baseball pitchers was recently featured on CTV News. Professor John McPhee's interview can be found here.

MASc student Yuntian Wang presented his thesis on "Design, dynamics, and control of upper-limb exoskeleton robots," — congratulations!

MASc student Bhavya Giri Goswami presented his thesis on "Compensatory stepping: biomechanical analysis, predictive modelling, and assistance with lower-limb exoskeleton" - Congratulations!

John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been elected as part of the incoming class of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellows for his outstanding scholarly achievements, the highest honour in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Congratulations!

PDF researcher AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 North American
Spine Society (NASS) International Annual Meeting for his work on "Automated Lenke classification for preoperative spine surgery by extracting anatomical landmarks from X-ray images using a deep learning approach." Congratulations!

MASc candidate Vasylysa Korovkina presented her research on "Active Swimming Prosthesis with IMU-based Wrist Control" at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025).

MASc candidate Bhavya Giri Goswami presented his research on "Compensatory foot placement estimation for impulsive torso perturbation", at the 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics at the Technical Campus of the University of Innsbruck.