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.
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.
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.
Cobionix’s collaborative robot Codi automates routine tasks, empowering professionals to focus on critical patient care
A multidisciplinary team of Waterloo students builds life-sized model of the Grumobile in just four days
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.
Waterloo researchers develop techniques modelled on the human brain to improve how self-driving cars work
Team Collaborative Deliciousness, led by Dr. Yue Hu and composed of team members Jeffery Lee (MASc in progress, mechatronics) and Cheng Tang, an undergraduate student in computer engineering, was selected as one of three finalists in the prestigious international competition for the KUKA Innovation Award at Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade fairs. This year's theme was "Robots for the People."
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.