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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.

Research poster by Bryony Schonewille

RAIS2021: Student Posters

Robotics Path Planning using Millimetre Wave Autonomous Vehicle Radar Path planning in inclement weather conditions, including snow and heavy rain, is a significant problem plaguing autonomous vehicle systems. Our work takes a step towards tackling this problem by leveraging existing hardware commonly used in self-driving vehicles, low-cost millimetre wave (mmWave) radar systems, to detect common …

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Queen’s Engineering researchers use AI, sensors to make new bridge “smart”

The Third Crossing development proved the perfect opportunity for a partnership between Ingenuity Labs and the City of Kingston. Dr. Joshua Woods, Ingenuity Labs Mitchell Professor and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, describes their efforts as technology development, where the end goal is to help the city monitor the bridge. “The …

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Student Researcher Rohan Bhambhoria receives funding from Lab2Market

L2M Toronto’s third cohort kicked off on September 13th, 2021 with 18 talented teams. Over the next four months they will embark on their entrepreneurial journeys to take their research to new beginnings. Through the L2M program, these researchers will learn world-leading methodologies and frameworks, and receive the support needed to bring their ideas to …

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Tenure-Track Positions at the Department of Electrical and Computing

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University invites applications for two (2) tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in a field related to robotics and/or mechatronics engineering, including, but not limited to, autonomous systems, machine learning and AI, intelligent …

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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. 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 …

Autonomous Mining Robot going driving into a mine.

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 …

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Dr. Sidney Givigi – Controlling Robots with your Mind

Check out this video about Ingenuity Labs researcher Sidney Givigi, and his Autonomous Robots Research Group. The project is Controlling Robots with your Mind.