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Ingenuity Labs Research Institute

We are an interdisciplinary initiative at Queen’s University focused on combining Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human Machine Interaction to create future intelligent systems and robotic machines that enhance human productivity, safety, performance, and quality of life.

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Dr. Joshua Woods, Mitchell Professor, Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring

A technological environment is a built environment. Dr. Josh Woods is rethinking how we can sense and measure how buildings “feel” – and reinvent how we relate to the structures we live and work in. He’s a faculty member in our Civil Engineering department; using AI and new ways of measuring materials, his work will …

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Dr. Xiaodan Zhu, Mitchell Professor, Text Analytics and Machine Learning

Better language algorithms mean better AI and better machines. Dr. Xiaodan Zhu is at the forefront of this movement. As announced in January 2021, the Mitchell Professors are five engineering researchers, funded by a gift from Bruce Mitchell, Sc’68, DSc’20, to explore the frontiers of how humanity and machines coexist. The Mitchell Professors reside in …

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Dr. Matt Robertson, Mitchell Professor, Bio-Inspired Robotics

Integrating nature and robotics, from slithering to swarms. Dr. Matt Robertson is the Mitchell Professor reinventing robots via the natural world. As announced in January 2021, the Mitchell Professors are five engineering researchers, funded by a gift from Bruce Mitchell, Sc’68, DSc’20, to explore the frontiers of how humanity and machines coexist. The Mitchell Professors …

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Dr. Ali Etemad, Mitchell Professor, AI for Human Sensing and Understanding

Queen’s Engineering is reinventing our understanding of machines; from how they think, to how they move, to how they – and we – feel. As announced in January 2021, the Mitchell Professors are five engineering researchers, funded by a gift from Bruce Mitchell, Sc’68, DSc’20, to explore the frontiers of how humanity and machines coexist. …

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Dr. Amy Wu, Mitchell Professor, Bio-Inspired Robotics

Queen’s Engineering is reinventing our understanding of machines; from how they think, to how they move, to how they – and we – feel. As announced in January 2021, the Mitchell Professors are five engineering researchers, funded by a gift from Bruce Mitchell, Sc’68, DSc’20, to explore the frontiers of how humanity and machines coexist. …

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Queen’s Engineering one of 10 teams selected for prestigious international self-driving car competition

“Off-road vehicles – and autonomous driving — are some of the many areas that Ingenuity Labs was founded to focus on,” says Josh Marshall, Director at Ingenuity Labs. “We have some of the continent’s leading researchers, both at the faculty and graduate student level, working on exactly these kinds of challenges. The AutoDrive Challenge will …

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Podcast: Robotics, Automation and the 21st Century Miner with Dr. Joshua Marshall

Dr. Joshua Marshall, Interim Director of the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, joined Amber Mac for an episode of the This Is Mining podcast to chat about the robot revolution and why it’s already here. It’s an exciting time for robotics and autonomous vehicle technologies in the mining sector because new technologies are transforming the industry …

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The robot revolution is here: How it’s changing jobs and businesses in Canada

Whether we like it or not, the robot era is already upon us. The question is: Is the Canadian economy poised to flourish or flounder in a world where robots take over the tasks we don’t want to do ourselves? The answer may surprise you.Continue to read the rest of this story in The Conversation …

Photos of the 5 Mitchell Professors, Ali Etemad, Joshua Woods, Xiaodan Zhu, Matt Robertson, and Amy Wu.

Queen’s Engineering alumnus gift funds the future of human-machine collaboration research

A transformational gift from philanthropist and Queen’s alumnus Bruce Mitchell (Sc’68) has enabled the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science to expand its investment in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and human-machine collaboration research, and the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute. Announced today is the installation of five professorships across three departments in the Faculty of Engineering.Read …

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Engineering alumnus, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bruce Mitchell (Sci’68) receives honorary degree at Fall 2020 convocation

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science convocation ceremony of November 13, Queen’s Principal Patrick Deane spoke of this year’s recipient of the honorary doctorate degree in science, Bruce Mitchell (Sci’68).Read this story on the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science News page. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Mitchell on is …