New Videos about our Soft Robots

by | Apr 25, 2019 | News

Two great videos of our work (including interviews with Prof. Diller) were prepared by journalists: Veritasium on YouTube Science Magazine These are based on our new paper in Science Robotics: T. Xu, J. Zhang, M. Salehizadeh, O. Onaizah, and E. Diller,...

New Article in Science Robotics

by | Apr 24, 2019 | News

Tianqi’s new paper was just published in the journal Science Robotics! Congrats Tianqi! UofT Engineering also published a news article on the paper. Dr. Diller was interviewed in TechBriefs about the work. “Millimeter-Scale Flexible Robots with...

ICRA2019 paper award nomination

by | Mar 27, 2019 | News

Omid’s ICRA “International Conference on Robotics Automation” 2019 paper “Contactless Robotic Micromanipulation in Air Using a Magneto-acoustic System” is nominated for the Best Paper Award in Automation! Congrats Omid, and good luck...

Welcome to 5 new lab members!

by | Sep 5, 2018 | News

The Microrobotics Lab is welcoming 5 new PhD/MASc students starting in September! Starting an MASc is Adam Schonewille, Sagar Jaiswal, Omar Ismail, and Mihai Nica. Starting a PhD is Shenrui Pan. Priscilla Lai is also starting a PhD, after spending the past few months...

Congratulations Dr. Zhang!

by | Sep 4, 2018 | News

Congratulations to Dr. Jiachen Zhang, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Dr. Zhang is the first PhD graduate from the Microrobotics Lab. We had a celebration for him as he moves on from our group!

Dr. Diller named Dean’s Catalyst Professor

by | Jul 21, 2018 | News

Dr. Diller has been recognized by the Dean of Engineering as the Dean’s Catalyst Professor, a title he will hold for three years. This named professorship was created by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering to promote and accelerate the contributions...

Prof. Diller receives the I.W. Smith Award from CSME

by | May 30, 2018 | News

Prof. Diller received the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers! The I.W. Smith Award was established in 1977 to honour Professor I. W. Smith who devoted a lifetime to teaching mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto. It is...