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Dr. Onaizah served as an invited Robotics panelist at WiSE

Dr. Onaizah served on the Robotics panel at the 13th Annual National WiSE Conference: Reaching for the Stars on January 26, 2025 organized by Women in Science and Engineering.

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🚀 From Capstone to Cutting-Edge Research! 🚀

What can you accomplish during your capstone? Just ask this incredible team of researchers (Jackson Sholdice, Kaitlyn Clancy, Carl Castro, and Lauren Watson) at the Faculty of Engineering – McMaster University who didn’t stop at graduation. Instead, they transformed their final year design project into a research publication and a provisional patent through McMaster Industry Liaison Office (MILO)!

Over the summer, we welcomed NSERC USRA winner Karolina Teresinska to the team, further accelerating our progress.

At the HeART Lab @ Mac, we have developed the first automated 3D printer for magnetic soft robots, allowing us to go from design to product in minutes. This work was recently published in Advanced Robotics Research! 🎉

📖 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gfGkKV-B

This is just the beginning, stay tuned for exciting updates to our 3D printer in 2025! 🔬✨
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Awards

Dr. Onaizah nominated for Innovator of the Year

We are excited to annouce that Dr. Onaizah has been nominated as ‘Innovator of the Year in 2024’ at McMaster University.

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Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC)

HeART Lab members recently attended the Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC) hosted by CS-Can | Info-Can at York University. We presented our latest work on ‘Designing Small-scale Magnetic Soft Robots using Evolutionary Algorithms’.

All of the attendees were supported by the inaugural CAN-CWiC Travel Grant generously sponsored by the Department of Computing and Software at Faculty of Engineering – McMaster University. Thank you to Dr. Swati Mishra for all her hard work in making this possible. Congratulations to all of the attendees and presenters.

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Congrats Shivam

Huge congratulations to Shivam! 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 HeART Lab. 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.

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HeART Lab receives CFI funding

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.

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HeART Lab wins pitch competition

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/

 

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2024 CAS Technical Poster and Demo Competition

Our students presented their thesis projects in our annual CAS technical poster competition.

Veerash presented a project on a novel magnetic actuation system

 

Shivam presented a project on a cool magnetic capsule design

 

Reyhaneh presented her project on using an Evolutionary algorithm for magnetic micro-surgical scissors design

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Abstract for CSME/CFD2024 Accepted

Our first abstract submission for a conference got accepted 🎉🎉! Read the abstract here: CSME-CFD-2024-Abstract

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HeART Lab members and guests out for dinner

Photo credits: Veerash Palanichamy (not pictured)