Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work.
This was one of the key results in a new study that also found both the youngsters and their instructors valued the positive classroom contributions made by the robot.
Over $3.8 million has been awarded to twenty-three University of Waterloo infrastructure projects tackling national and global challenges from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This funding, provided through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) program, is part of a $64 million commitment to research infrastructure across 40 Canadian universities.
University of Waterloo students may soon be able to order pizza or a burger from a nearby plaza and have it brought to campus by Canada’s first all-weather autonomous delivery robot.
About 13 years ago, four friends and mechatronics engineering students at the University of Waterloo were building robots in university labs and their own basements. From those humble beginnings, Clearpath Robotics has become a multi-million-dollar global enterprise that now employs 320 people and has their sights set on the moon.
Nityanand Varma left his native India in the early 1960s to do a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo. Now a proud alumnus, he and his family are helping the university grow in a way he would never have imagined possible via a $1-million contribution to fund a new professorship in robotics.
When Pablo Molina (BASc ’11), chairman, CTO, VP of Product and co-founder of Avidbots, wanted to improve his company's flagship autonomous floor-scrubbing robot, he turned to his former University of Waterloo professor and mentor, William Melek, for help.
Professor Stewart McLachlin, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and a member of the RoboHub's extended research team, has been awarded a one-year grant of $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for research on predictive tools to improve outcomes in invasive spine surgery.
Brokoslaw Laschowski is using his interdisciplinary education — spanning four academic degrees — as a toolkit to integrate robotics technology with rehabilitation medicine. While pursuing his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Laschowski decided to intersect his passion for human biomechanics and engineering design by working with Team Canada wheelchair athletes as a researcher in Paralympic sports.
Brian Mao and Ben Zhang are graduate students from the University of Waterloo and members of a multi-university team that competed at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. At the event, teams from across the world compete with self-driving race cars for a prize of $1 million USD.
Professor Ehsan Toyserkani, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and a RoboHub collaborator, published a new book titled Metal Additive Manufacturing.