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The Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (AMC), a joint partnership between McMaster University, University of Waterloo, and Western University, is helping to accelerate industry adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies, which will create jobs and strengthen the province’s reputation as a leading manufacturing region.

Since AMC was launched in April 2017, nearly 100 companies have benefited from the advanced manufacturing experts and state-of-the-art facilities at Waterloo. 

Kerstin Dautenhahn, a cross-appointed professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems design engineering, was named an IEEE fellow for her contributions to social robotics and human-robot interaction.

An online magazine has recognized the University of Waterloo as one of the five most innovative universities in North America and South America in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

Dana Kulić, RoboHub core research team member and associate professor, will now be joining Monash University to help lead the planning and establishment of a new robotics research facility. We wish her the best of luck in her new position. Below is a short article Monash Engineering published about her joining the university, see their website for the original article.

PAL Robotics, the robotics system supplier of our newest humanoid TALOS, wrote a post on their blog interviewing our team members about the RoboHub and plans for our TALOS. Visit their website for the original article.

Last week, the University of Waterloo inaugurated the Pearl Sullivan Engineering building, which has an impressive RoboHub with a big family of robots… Amongst which, you can find TALOS! The 32-DoF humanoid robot has joined the RoboHub family, and showed its manipulation skills during the Grand Opening.

The Globe and Mail published an article on the RoboHub along with the other facilities in the new PSE building. Visit their website for the original article.

If robotics development is anything like driving a car, the University of Waterloo is about to upgrade to a brand-new Ferrari from an old jalopy.

This fall, students and faculty will be able to access the RoboHub – a purpose-built test facility for a variety of robots, from humanoids and wheeled vehicles to flying drones.

To celebrate the opening of the Pearl Sullivan Engineering building our manager, Brandon DeHart, and Professor Sanjeev Bedi went on Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke to discuss the RoboHub and the new Ideas Clinic facility. The full show can be listened to online beginning at timecode 44:14 or the transcript of the interview is featured below.

CBC News stopped by the RoboHub on October 29th to get a sneak peak at the facility before the PSE Grand Opening celebrations. Visit their website for the original article.

A new engineering building complete with a start-of-the-art robotics research hub has opened on the University of Waterloo campus.

Students have been using Pearl Sullivan Engineering since the start of the semester in September, but the school held an official grand opening on Monday to highlight the research that will be done in the new facility.

CTV News Kitchener visited the RoboHub during the PSE Grand Opening celebrations and received an up-close, personal look at our new fleet member TALOS. Visit their website for the original article and for the video coverage. 

The University of Waterloo is hoping to become a pioneer of the next industrial revolution.

On Monday it opened its newest engineering building, Pearl Sullivan Engineering, an $88 million project featuring an robotics research and testing facility facility that has technology unavailable to the rest of the world.

Chamath Palihapitiya kept it light but heartfelt during his speech via video when he was announced today as the largest private donor to the new Pearl Sullivan Engineering (PSE) building as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate its official opening.

Palihapitiya, an alumnus, venture capitalist and former Facebook executive went on to give his alma mater high praise while explaining why he gave back by contributing $25 million to construction of the seven-storey, 242,000-square-foot building on the east campus.