HeartLab
🏆 Best Student Paper Award at MARSS 2025
Our paper on a “Magnetically Actuated Capsule Mechanism for Drug Delivery, Sampling, and Cargo Transport” won Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS 2025). Congratulations to Shivam Gupta and Veerash Palanichamy for leading this incredible effort!
HeART Lab alumna Mackenzie Keeler was featured as a McMaster Grad to Watch. Read more about Mackenzie’s journey here.
🏆 Best Paper Award at CSME International Congress
Our paper on Automated Fabrication of Magnetic Soft Microrobots earned 1st Place at the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering! Huge congratulations to Kaitlyn Clancy for leading this work, with key contributions from Siwen Xie and Griffin Smith. This is an especially meaningful win with over 600 accepted submissions across a wide spectrum of mechanical engineering topics.
We are excited to annouce that Dr. Onaizah has been nominated as ‘Innovator of the Year in 2024’ at McMaster University.
Huge congratulations to ! He placed second in the Master’s category at the ‘MIRA Knowledge Exchange’. He ranked third at the ‘CAS Poster and Demo Session’. Way to represent the  . Of course, none of this would be possible without the excellent work that he has done in his degree, his ICRA paper and the resulting invention disclosure.
HeART Lab received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation – John R. Evans Leaders Fund to build a world class microrobotics laboratory. Read about it here.
A pitch for a high-precision robotic surgical technology won us the Judges Choice award at McMaster’s Innovation Matchmaking program.
Read more about it here: https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/mcmaster-innovation-matchmaking-health-technology-solutions/
Dr. Onaizah received the Chair’s Service Award in December 2023 for her contribution to the Faculty Hiring Committee.
Congratulations to HeART Lab MASc Student Shivam Gupta who is enrolled in Software Engineering at McMaster University! He received the MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Great to have you on the team Shivam! You can find out more about the MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship here.