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Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, a member of the RoboHub Research Team, has been awarded $1.4 million as the new Tier 1 NSERC Canadian Research Chair in Socially Intelligent Robotics.

Real Life Robotics, a pioneering robotics and automation company at Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, today announces a first-of-its-kind robot-powered delivery partnership with Skip, Canada’s homegrown delivery network. 

Through an initial three-month deployment in Markham, Ont., the initiative will pave the way for enhanced innovation within the Canadian delivery ecosystem with the potential to expand across additional Canadian cities.

Today, CENGN announced a Living Lab partnership with the University of Waterloo and Rogers Communications to advance Canadian innovation.  Through the partnership, the CENGN Living Lab Initiative will now include co-funded access to the Robotic Connectivity Living Lab, powered by the University of Waterloo’s RoboHub and Rogers. The Living Lab will enable Canadian startups and scaleups to test and validate their cutting-edge products and services in critical sectors like defence, robotics, and applied artificial intelligence, accelerating their path to market readiness.

Waterloo researchers have found that hackers can identify a robot’s action with a 97 per cent accuracy rate. A new study from the University of Waterloo has unveiled major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots — calling for stronger defenses.

Waterloo researchers develop techniques modelled on the human brain to improve how self-driving cars work

A local startup founded by four Waterloo Engineering alumni expects to deliver its first zero-emissions, high-performance electric boats to early adopter customers next year.

A multidisciplinary team of Waterloo students builds life-sized model of the Grumobile in just four days

Cobionix’s collaborative robot Codi automates routine tasks, empowering professionals to focus on critical patient care