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The Globe and Mail published an article on the RoboHub along with the other facilities in the new E7 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 Engineering 7 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 E7 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 Engineering 7 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 E7 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, Engineering 7, 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 Engineering 7 (E7) 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.

The Waterloo Record did a piece on the RoboHub on October 29th as part of the coverage around the E7 Grand Opening. Visit their website for the original article.

Pearl Sullivan is standing inside a room where robots will float above the ground thanks to magnetic levitation technology.

As the dean of engineering at the University of Waterloo she is constantly exposed to cutting-edge technology, but the RoboHub takes that to new levels.

The latest addition to the RoboHub, a new, state-of-the-art robotics facility at Waterloo Engineering, took its first tentative but impressive steps during an impromptu demonstration this week.

A full-size, electric, humanoid robot capable of seeing, hearing and feeling the world around it via sensors, it also shuffled sideways, waved and took a bow as students stopped to shoot videos with their smartphones through the glass walls.

The RoboHub was featured in Study International's article highlighting the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Engineering and the research conducted by its faculty members, graduate students and research centres. Visit their website for the original article.

One of the reasons that Waterloo in Ontario, Canada is the largest startup community after Silicon Valley, is because most of the tech founders are engineering graduates or researchers coming out of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering.

A robot glides across a warehouse floor, picks up an object from a top shelf, boxes it and then carefully loads the wrapped package on a delivery truck – all in record time and without bumping into anything.

Soo Jeon (far left) discusses research work with his graduate student team who are working to integrate dexterous robotic arm into a heavy-duty mobile platfom.

It’s official!  Monday, October 29, 2018, is the Grand Opening of Engineering 7.

Attached to both E5 and E6, this seven-storey, 242,000 square-foot building will be a new vibrant home for students, faculty, research facilities and staff.