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Professor Moojan Ghafurian touches on a new study about the slow acceptance of robots as individuals experience isolation or see how it is affecting others. Canadians have shown openness to buying and using social robots whether or not they've been positively or negatively affected by the pandemic.

This work was done in collaboration with several RoboHub researchers including Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, a member of the core RoboHub research team and the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics

RoboHub Director William Melek and RoboHub collaborator Patricia Nieva have partnered with Facedrive Health to incorporate new algorithms in a new COVID-19 tracing app called TraceSCAN.

The algorithms will be able to provide information about physical distancing, isolation measures that a person who tested positive for COVID has taken, and testing results for individuals all to better forecast the spread of COVID-19 and predict any further outbreaks.

RoboHub collaborators Ehsan Toyserkani and Mihaela Vlasea, the Directors of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab (MSAM), have worked to create personalized facemasks for front-line workers and patients with autoimmune deficiencies.

Our very own RoboHub technician, Robert Wagner, has been featured in both the MME and Waterloo Engineering news for his efforts in building a PPE-free COVID-19 testing booth for a local hospital. 

RoboHub collaborator Ehsan Toyserkani, Director of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab, has used 3D printing and nanotechnology to create wearable technology able to monitor everything from vital signs to athletic performances.

RoboHub Director William Melek has been interviewed in a two-part article on the impact of collaborative robotics and autonomous systems on the automotive industry in Canada. 

On January 22nd, the RoboHub was highlighted in an episode of "The Age of A.I.", a documentary series covering the ways artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks are changing the world. Our state-of-the-art robotics research, testing, and training facility is profiled in Episode 6, titled "Will a robot take my job?" — one of the world’s most Googled questions.

The RoboHub played host to a camera crew earlier this year which was busy filming TALOS and a few of our researchers over several days for a YouTube Originals docuseries hosted by Robert Downey Jr. titled "The Age of A.I." (watch the trailer on YouTube).

At the University of Waterloo, researchers are building a world where robots and people work together.

Recently, our friends at The Record visited the RoboHub has part of a larger artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics series called More Than Human.

You might have noticed something familiar while flipping through the channels earlier this week.

For the first time ever, the University of Waterloo appeared as a Pit Stop on this season of CTV’s The Amazing Race Canada.

In traditional Waterloo fashion, innovative projects and head-scratching challenges designed by students were showcased on Canada’s most-watched summer series.