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Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Posters For Student Activism - a Visual/Sonic Online Workshop Event

Feed your creative being while connecting to the themes of UWaterloo's Critical Tech Talk Series discussing the ethics of Technology.

About this event

Held virtually, this will be a relaxed workshop style event that sees a brief review of the history of student organizing and the accompanying posters that supported those movements. We'll then livestream some music and people can then take time to just chill and draw.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 9:00 am - 10:15 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Small-scale Magnetically Actuated Robotic Tools for Biomedical Applications

Research seminar 

Small scale robots have the potential to offer many unique applications for minimally invasive surgery, sensing and drug delivery in healthcare as well as more generally for microfactories and as scientific tools. They are precise end-effectors that can manipulate objects with a high degree of accuracy. Many surgical and on-chip tasks can be performed by manipulating these robots in their dedicated environments.

Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:00 am - 10:15 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Autonomous Medical Robots Guided by Real-Time 3D Imaging

Research seminar 

Modern surgical procedures require delicate tissue interactions and thus benefit greatly from the precise manipulations offered by medical robots. Similarly, live 3D imaging modalities (e.g., optical coherence tomography [OCT], ultrasound) offer rich clinical data streams useful for guiding surgical instruments.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 9:00 am - 10:15 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Wireless medical microrobots

Research seminar

Autonomously moving microrobots that can be controlled remotely have enormous potential for innovative biomedical applications such as non-invasive surgery, drug delivery or cell manipulation.  This talk will present different approaches to the development of such wireless microrobots, ranging from biohybrid to bioinspired systems. Biohybrid and biomimetic approaches are very attractive because they exploit the naturally optimized designs and propulsion sources of biological swimmers.

Research seminar 

Surgical robots and exoskeletons save lives and enable independence. However, their access, acceptance and use are limited by usability barriers and cost-benefit comparisons with conventional practice. My talk will demonstrate soft robotics techniques and transdisciplinary design strategies that address these challenges and stimulate the discovery of new application areas in engineering and medicine.