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A company founded at the University of Waterloo’s flagship incubator has performed the first autonomous robotic intramuscular injection, paving the way to improved patient care in an industry faced with labour shortages.

Cobionix, an autonomous robotics company located in Kitchener-Waterloo, performed the injection—without needles—using their Cobi platform.

Prof. Brandon DeHart and Alex Werner worked alongside Professor AJung Moon and her team at McGill's RAISE Lab and the Open Roboethics Institute (ORI) to design and host an international competition focused on ethical robots. The competition was held as part of the RO-MAN 2021 conference, whose organizing committee included five faculty and two staff from Waterloo Engineering.

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics and a member of the RoboHub's core research team, was recently interviewed on the BBC Tech Tent podcast about whether or not robots should look like humans.

The WATonomous student team, co-advised by RoboHub Director Wiliam Melek and Professor Derek Rayside, has won second place in the SAE AutoDrive Challenge in the final year of the competition!

Professor Amir Khajepour and his team at the Mechatronic Vehicle Systems Laboratory have successfully launched the WATonoBus: the first driverless, autonomous 5G shuttle in Canada!

Professor Arash Arami, head of the Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab and a member of RoboHub's extended research team, was invited to give a keynote talk at CSME 2021.

A team of engineering students at the University of Waterloo, supported by the RoboHub, WEEF, and several other on-campus groups, has climbed to the top of the standings in an international robotics competition.

The UWAT VEX U team, which has been growing steadily since its launch in 2018, has been ranked first among 77 teams from around the world, including China, Mexico, Spain and Morocco, in the VEX U event operated by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation.

Professor Oliver Schneider, an Engineering faculty member in Management Sciences and a RoboHub collaborator, has recently been awarded $250,000 under the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2020 Exploration program, which brings researchers from different disciplines together to pursue high-risk, high-reward research projects.

Professor Hamad Shahsavan, a RoboHub collaborator in the field of soft robots who recently joined Waterloo as a faculty member, is the lead author of a paper chosen as a finalist for a 2020 Cozzarelli Prize recognizing the top work published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Engineering IDEAs Clinic™ has partnered with Inductive Automation, Brock Solutions and Opto 22 to create a small-scale automation project for students to gain hands-on knowledge of real-world equipment and tools.