Aether enters the living room and seems to greet the two people sitting there, spinning several times before gliding toward the kitchen in search of a doughnut. The robot, which is being tested at several Lower Mainland group homes for people with developmental disabilities, is a hit with both residents and staff, and could eventually […]

Qiuting Gong is toiling away on a robot at the University of Manitoba. The ‘bot can kick, throw a ping-pong ball, and wave, but she hopes one day to add rescuing to its repertoire. Gong, 21, is an undergraduate student at Harbin Engineering University in China, who came to Manitoba through summer internship program Mitacs […]

Her name is Jennifer. She’s about a foot-and-a-half tall with glowing blue eyes, and she’s capable of throwing a ping-pong ball through a hoop about 15 centimetres away. It might not seem an impressive task for a human, but Jennifer is a humanoid robot programmed by the University of Manitoba’s Autonomous Agents Laboratory, and she’s […]

A Mitacs Globalink intern is contributing to the research this summer at the University of Manitoba. Mitacs Globalink is funded by the Government of Canada and Research Manitoba in the province of Manitoba.    

A Mitacs Globalink intern is contributing to the research this summer at the University of Manitoba. Mitacs Globalink is funded by the Government of Canada and Research Manitoba in the province of Manitoba.    

Although Nahed Belhadj is from Tunisia, she may know more about the historical landmarks and tourist attractions of Saint John, N.B. than some locals. Belhadj, 23, spent three months in the Maritimes working on an Internet of Things (IoT) project. She built a mobile app that offers visitors information and recommendations about nearby points of […]

If you knew a flood was coming — and you could predict the water level and damages — your evacuation and response would be dramatically improved. Such a tool might have helped the Dundas community back in April, when a month’s worth of rain fell in a single day. The flooding at Spencer Creek caused […]

A spin-off company from the University of British Columbia is promising to make a crap job a good deal easier and cleaner, with a scalable waste-processing system. Manure management practices on local dairy farms routinely raise a stink from their residential neighbours when the slurry is sprayed on fields, as well as from American farmers […]

Self-driving technology has rolled into the city with a University of Toronto-created autonomous wheelchair. The wheelchair was seen cruising down the atrium of the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre for Information Technology last week, pausing for a person in its path before rotating around them — all without a driver. It’s a prototype that uses […]

A team of Canadian researchers and robotics experts say they’ve developed cost-effective technology that would allow power wheelchairs to drive themselves. Toronto-based Cyberworks Robotics and the University of Toronto have applied the same principles at work in self-driving cars, saying using similar types of sensors on motorized wheelchairs can allow the mobility aids to dodge […]

A Mitacs Globalink intern is contributing to the research this summer. Mitacs Globalink is funded by the Government of Canada in the province of Ontario.

An affordable, self-driving wheelchair is the latest innovation coming out of a summer internship program at the University of Toronto, and it could be rolling out very soon. Xinyi Li, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student from Zhejiang University in China, is in Toronto on a 12-week internship funded by Mitacs Globalink. “The wheelchair is amazing. It […]