The team at Waterloo EDC recently interviewed Matt Rendall, the CEO and Co-Founder of both Clearpath Robotics and Otto Motors, and our very own RoboHub Manager, Brandon DeHart, about what it's like to study, develop, sell, and use robots here in the Waterloo Region!
RoboHub Director William Melek and RoboHub collaborator Patricia Nieva's app for TraceSCAN has been in the works since the beginning of the pandemic. Recently, the COVID-19 tracking app has gotten provincially funded to accelerate the development of wearable contact tracing technology.
Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics, and her team at the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL) are investigating how social robots can be used to help ensure all children enjoy playing games and sports, regardless of their abilities.
While many people hope to get back to normal after the pandemic, economics professor Joel Blit (MASc ’99) sees an unprecedented opportunity for Canada to transform its economy.
The pandemic has forced businesses to do things differently and often better. Firms have digitized processes and automated workflows to survive the economic crisis and address its health risks.
As part of an article exploring the impacts of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program on innovation and technology adoption, RoboHub collaborator Professor Joel Blit mentioned the RoboHub as a potential resource to help Canadian businesses to access and implement cutting-edge technologies.
RoboHub collaborators Ehsan Toyserkani and Mihaela Vlasea, the Directors of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab, have received a combined total of almost $3 million in federal funding. The money will be used to purchase equipment to develop and characterize metal additive manufacturing powders and parts.
The COVID-19 tracking app developed by Facedrive in partnership with RoboHub Director William Melek and RoboHub collaborator Patricia Nieva is now going to be tested by Air Canada.
Waterloo Engineering alumni company Clearpath Robotics has secured an additional US $5 million to fuel global growth of Otto Motors, its industrial division.
The investment boosts the total of its latest round of financial backing to US $34 million following the announcement in June of US $29 million.
RoboHub's very own Katja Mombaur and her team of graduate and post-doctoral students are starting their work with REEM-C, the newest humanoid robot at Waterloo. At 165 centimetres tall and 80 kilograms in weight, REEM-C is described as the 'slightly smaller and lighter brother' of TALOS, the RoboHub's full-size humanoid robot.
RoboHub collaborator Ning Jiang, a Professor in Systems Design Engineering and co-founder of Brink Bionics, has secured $350,00 in seed funding to commercialize innovative technology for the gaming industry.