Best Student Paper Award at MARSS Conference

by | Jul 21, 2017 | News

Congratulations To Mohammad that his paper “Optimization-based formation control of underactuated magnetic microrobots via inter-agent forces” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 conference Manipulation and Robotics and Small Scales (MARSS)! This...

Prof. Diller receives Connaught New Researcher Award

by | Jun 6, 2017 | News

Prof. Diller received the Connaught New Researcher Award at UofT (awarded at the highest level) for our lab’s work in magnetically-driven microrobots. This award will help support our work in developing medical devices for minimally-invasive surgery.

Best Presentation Awards at MIE Symposium

by | May 23, 2017 | News

Jiachen and Tianqi received the awards for “1st place Oral Presentation” and “1st place Poster Presentation” respectively in the category of Advanced Materials, Applied Mechanics and Robotics at the MIE department Graduate Research Symposium on...

Congrats to Patrick on his MASc thesis defense!

by | Aug 23, 2016 | News

Patrick successfully defended his MASc thesis, “Design of a Rotating Permanent Magnet System for 5-DOF Control of Micro-Robots” on August 22. Congratulation to him for a great presentation and an excellent Masters thesis, and also as the first graduate of...

Patrick Wins Best Presentation Award

by | Jun 10, 2016 | News

Patrick won first place best presentation for his talk title “Magnetic Control of Micro-Robots Using Rotating Permanent Magnets” at the MIE Graduate Research Symposium, held on June 10. The picture was taken at the banquet dinner and awards ceremony...

MARSS 2016 Award Nomination

by | Jun 6, 2016 | News

Congratulations to Mohammad Salehizadeh for his upcoming paper – Two-Agent Formation Control of Magnetic Microrobots – which has been selected as a Best Conference Paper nominee for the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at...