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All-weather robot really delivers the goods By Carol Truemner. This article was originally published on the Faculty of Engineering news site. University of Waterloo students may soon be able to order pizza or a burger from a nearby plaza and have it brought to campus by Canada’s first all-weather autonomous delivery robot. LoopX, a Waterloo Engineering startup company that is

University of Waterloo students may soon be able to order pizza or a burger from a nearby plaza and have it brought to campus by Canada’s first all-weather autonomous delivery robot. LoopX, a Waterloo Engineering startup company that is developing the technology to do just that, received a $30,000 funding boost recently when it took top prize in the 5G Transportation Challenge

It's National AccessAbility Week: webinars, resources, and more National AccessAbility Week (NAAW) is happening this week, from May 29 to June 4, 2022, and is a time to celebrate the contributions of Canadians with disabilities and promote efforts to increase accessibility and inclusion in Canada. This year, the theme for National AccessAbility Week is “Inclusive from the

Advancing equity and inclusion in contract research and commercialization at Waterloo A message from the Office of Research. The Office of Research is partnering with Canadian Equality Consulting (CEC) to build an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy and action plan, including Indigenous initiatives. The focus is to increase access and engagement for those who are

John Hirdes, Robert Mann named University Professors The University of Waterloo has announced that two faculty members have received the University Professor designation in 2022. Vice-President, Academic & Provost James Rush made the announced at this week's meeting of the University's Board of Governors. Professor John Hirdes of Public Health Sciences and Professor Robert

A startup company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to help people manage their cryptocurrency investments has joined the ranks of unicorns. CoinTracker, an online service based in San Francisco, recently announced a US $100-million funding round that gives it a valuation of US $1.3 billion. Company co-founder and chief executive officer Jon Lerner, who was born in

Perseverance is paying off for two Waterloo Engineering graduates who co-founded an ambitious medical hardware company. Five years after launching Vena Medical to commercialize their fourth-year design project, Michael Phillips and Phil Cooper announced their first government approval this week for a device to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering collaborated with researchers in New Zealand on the development of a method to disinfect personal protective

Cambridge (PRWEB) December 20, 2021 -- Online tech sales academy Uvaro and its partners BWOSS and Garage Capital are pleased to announce the first two

An alumnus of Waterloo Engineering who parlayed his graduate research into a startup company that is out to solve worldwide water problems has been...