Dr. Rocco Leonardo Martino is the inventor of the CyberFone — the first smartphone that put the world in the palm of the user’s hand — and the driving force behind the software systems permitting secure real-time video, voice and data linkages. He graduated with a “first” in honours mathematics […]
A new Chevrolet Bolt vehicle has just arrived at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies. Now, a student team has until April to teach it to drive itself. U of T Engineering is one of just eight schools from across North America selected to participate in the AutoDrive […]
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 […]
Developers aim to make robots a part of our daily lives, making them essential to doing jobs humans can’t—or won’t—do. Robots increasingly doing human jobs on CTV
Technology developed in Canada can turn electric wheelchairs into autonomous vehicles. New technology makes electric wheelchairs autonomous
Professor Angela Schoellig (UTIAS) has been named one of the world’s top Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine. “It’s an honour — to be named among this group of luminaries comes as a wonderful surprise,” says Schoellig of the recognition. “It’s also great for my students and postdoctoral […]
The Norwegian satellites NorSat-1 and NorSat-2 were successfully launched on Friday the 14th of July 2017. The two satellites will monitor maritime traffic and test science and technology payloads. Norway’s new national satellites lifted off with a Soyuz-launcher from the Russian spaceport in Baikonur today at 08.36 CET Friday the […]
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. […]
Heuckroth, a triple graduate of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), donated $525,000 to establish scholarships at UTIAS. The scholarships are directed to students from developing countries to study at the master’s level. Heuckroth made the gift to give students opportunities like those he […]
Rogers Eben Smith first flew with the RCAF before moving to the National Research Council as a test pilot. From there, he moved to NASA where he flew many aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird, while concurrently flying F-16s with the US Air National Guard. CAHF dinner sparkles on the West […]