Space is infamously inhospitable to life, but what is less universally understood is that it is also inhospitable to many technologies. The same high-energy radiation exposure that poses health risks to astronauts from solar particle events also renders the chip in a smartphone, a technology used by billions of people on Earth every day, useless. […]
Throughout the decades, robots have often been depicted as a threat to human survival, but American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov saw them differently, and in his seminal short story collection “I, Robot” he portrays them as benevolent helpers. At 첥Ƶ, a team of researchers is currently collaborating to develop robots to protect and make […]
Feeling sweaty and wanting to take a shower after a workout or a long run? Not so fast! That sweat may hold untapped secrets to your health. A team of 첥Ƶ researchers is currently looking into the potential of sweat by designing a simple wearable device that decodes those secrets in real time. The […]
While the technical skills are key to the success of an engineer, so too are creativity, problem-solving, leadership and experience. As workplaces rapidly transform, these skills will be more important than ever, something that was kept top of mind with the development of the Lassonde School of Engineering’s new Mechatronics Bachelor of Engineering degree, says […]
When the Delta plane hit hard, skidding along the runway, flames shooting out before flipping over on a blustery, snowy afternoon at Toronto Pearson airport, I was already in the air on a different weather-delayed flight, completely unaware of the chaos below. It was only upon landing that the flurry of anxious text messages from […]
Talk to any researcher in the artificial intelligence (AI) space and their excitement for the possibilities of how it could transform many aspects of health care is palpable, and for good reason. They are developing ethical AI tools that can be integrated into clinical elements in ways that could bring us that much closer to […]
Using precise satellite tracking data currently unavailable to smartphone processors, the Lassonde School of Engineering research team reduced tracking errors by upwards of 64 per cent. A considerable feat, given the fact that satellites transmit signals from more than 20,000 kilometres away in space and smartphone reception can be quite weak (a phone’s antenna costs […]
“I cycled in Europe where cycling is a big part of the transportation system, and people are really comfortable with that,” she says. “But when I came to Canada, it was sometimes scary, because I needed to share the street with cars, and some of the car-driving behaviour was not really appropriate for sharing the […]
For Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering, conducting research on the fairness of AI in healthcare and imaging diagnostics is personal. While working on research in developing optimization algorithms, Seyyed-Kalantari’s life was derailed by a medical misdiagnosis that took two years to […]