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Journal paper on Drone-Delivered Defibrillators got accepted to be published in top medical journal

Our collaborative work with medical and operations researchers from the University of Toronto on "Optimizing a drone network to deliver automated...

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Prof. Schoellig met the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s Minister of Science, during ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’ event

We participated in the panel convened for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, held February 11, 2017 at Facebook’s Toronto...

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Four papers from our group got accepted at ICRA 2017

Four papers from our group on machine learning in robotics got accepted at ICRA 2017. Preprints and videos are found on our Publications page....

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We are organizing a second invited session on Learning-Based Control at CDC 2017

We are organizing a second invited session on Learning-based Control at CDC 2016 in December (together with Melanie Zeilinger and Sebastian Trimpe)...

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Prof. Schoellig receives Connaught New Researcher Award

Prof. Angela Schoellig receives the Connaught New Researcher Award with the maximum funding amount for her proposal "Safety and Performance for...

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Second Workshop on Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion

Our workshop proposal for a Second Workshop on Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion at IROS 2015 in Hamburg was successful. Our...

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BBC coverage of our joint MIT & UofT drone project ‘Waterfly’

Latest piece on our airborne futures and the role of Waterfly, our environmental sensing drones. We have created a drone that can float on water and...

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CBC News: Prof. Angela Schoellig on why Amazon is testing drone deliveries in Canada

Angela Schoellig, a drone researcher at the University of Toronto, said she and her collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tried...

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Project Announcement: PrecisionHawk and U of Toronto partner on jammed UAV GPS solutions

@PrecisionHawk and the University of Toronto partner on jammed UAV GPS solutions...

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First announcement of our collaboration with PrecisionHawk to ‘Develop Solution for UAV Platforms in GPS-Denied Environments’

PrecisionHawk and the University of Toronto today announced a collaboration to develop a solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the event of GPS...

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