Remote Robotic Stroke Surgery with CRONOS
At the SLICE Worldwide conference on November 8–9, 2024, our MASc candidate Thais Baena Moura showcased her groundbreaking work in remote robotic stroke surg...
News
2024
CRL @ICRA 40th Anniversary Symposium in Rotterdam
Our team recently attended the prestigious 40th-anniversary symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Rotterdam, a ...
Priyanka defends her PhD
We are thrilled to announce that Priyanka Rao has successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled “Tendon Driven Continuum Robots: Modeling and Motion Planning ...
Welcome Ella and Mika
We’re super excited to welcome two new graduate students, Ella and Mika, who have joined us as MASc candidates in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (...
Kyum wins Best Podium Award at UnERD
Today, Kyum Lee, an enthusiastic undergraduate student from our Continuum Robotics Laboratory, showcased his work at the 2024 Undergraduate Engineering Resea...
CRL at Toronto Robotics Conference
The Continuum Robotics Laboratory team attended the 2024 Toronto Robotics Conference hosted by the University of Toronto Robotics Institute. Held at the Univ...
CRL at ICRA2024
We are proud to showcase a series of cutting-edge developments at the 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), happening from May 13-...
CRL goes Curling
The Continuum Robotics Lab team recently had the pleasure of joining our friends from the Diller Microrobotics Lab for an exciting and fun-filled curling ses...
CRL at RoboSoft 2024
We are thrilled to announce our lab’s representation at this year’s IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics. Our team is set to present three grou...
2023
CRL at IROS2023
We’re excited to share some highlights from the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems held recently in Detroit. Our graduate st...
Scavenger Hunt Time For CRL!
Our CRL group explored Toronto Island in a fun way this Summer 2023. The adventure began in the City of Toronto, where all teams were handed a kit that inclu...
First CRL PhD
We are happy to announce that our academic family expanded: Dr. Sven Lilge successfully defended his Ph.D. work Tendon-driven Parallel Continuum Robots: Mode...
New team members
CRL welcomes Puspita and Thais who are both starting their graduate studies this term. We are also welcoming Rebecca visiting CRL from Germany.
2022
CRL attends IROS in Kyoto, 2022
The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) was held in Kyoto, Japan this year from October 23rd - 27th. IROS is one of th...
New Robotics Teaching Laboratory at UTM!
UTM opened the doors to its very own undergraduate robotics teaching lab at Maanjiwe Nendamowinan on Wednesday September 7th. Faculty, staff, students and sp...
CRL Team Goes Tree Trekking!
Last Friday, the CRL team spent the day climbing and zipping across the treetops at Treetop Trekking in Brampton.
CRL attends MARSS Conference 2022
The International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) took place in Toronto from July 25th to 29th. The conference is...
Join CRL as a Postdoc!
The Continuum Robotics Laboratory at the University of Toronto invites applications for a fully funded post-doctoral researcher position.
CRL @ IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, 2022
Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs and Ph.D. student Sven Lilge represented CRL and the University of Toronto Robotics Institute at ICRA, the largest international ro...
Dr. Burgner Kahrs Talks at TEDxToronto – Renew
Watch CRL’s very own Dr. Jessica Burgner Kahrs’ inspiring TED Talk on breaking boundaries and reaching your true potential!
CRL Team Goes Rock Climbing!
Last week, the entire CRL team (+ some honorary members) went rock climbing at the Hub Climbing gym in Mississauga!
Exciting Changes to CRL team!
With 2022 finally settling in, it's time to introduce our new members at CRL and wish an amazing journey ahead to members who have departed the lab!
2021
Welcome to Hanna!
We are excited to have Hanna Jiamei Zhang join the Continuum Robotics Laboratory as a new graduate student! Welcome!
Open postdoctoral researcher position
The Continuum Robotics Laboratory (CRL) and the Medical Computer Vision and Robotics (MEDCVR) research group at the University of Toronto jointly invite app...
CRL @ICRA 2021
We are excited to share our latest and greatest research at this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. While we can't join in-per...
Welcome to Kefei! Our new Post Doctoral Fellow at the Lab!
Kefei is a recent graduate from the University of Laval in Quebec City holding a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. During his Ph.D. studies, his focus was ...
Paper on the design of a reconfigurable parallel continuum robot appears in RA-L
A paper researched by Sven Lilge, our director Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, and CRL alumni, Georg Böttcher has been published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation ...
Happy New Year, And, We Have A New Look!
Happy New Year to Everyone! We at the CRL hope that you will have a great year (or for the very least, that it will be better than the last). To celebra...
2020
How our graduate and post-grad researchers have been working through the pandemic.
How our graduate and post-grad researchers have been working through the pandemic.
Paper on kinematic analysis of planar parallel robots published
In collaboration with the Institute of Mechatronic Systems (IMES) at the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, the CRL has successfully published a paper...
Nan Liang wins runner-up at the Robotics Institute 3MT competition!
The Continuum Robotics Lab congratulates Nan Liang for his recent achievement of placing as the runner up at the U of T Robotics Institute’s 3-Minute-Thesis...
Paper on the estimation of external forces on continuum robots published
A joint paper by the CRL and the Institute of Robotics and Process Control at the Technische Universität in Braunschweig, Germany has recently been publishe...
Meet This Year’s ROP Students!
This year at the lab we have 3 students undergoing the Research Opportunity Program (ROP) at the Continuum Robotics Laboratory. The following are those s...
Meet This Year’s Thesis Students!
For the 2020-2021 academic year, the Continuum Robotics Lab will be hosting three 4th year students as they embark on research for their undergraduate thesi...
Robots and the Pandemic
From disinfection and remote triage, to logistics and delivery, countries around the world are making use of robots to address the unique challenges present...
Paper on continuum structures in planar parallel robots accepted
Our paper on modelling, calibration, and evaluation of a tendon-driven parallel continuum robot was accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics & Auto...
CRL @RSS 2020
What a great virtual RSS conference! A big shout out to the RSS 2020 organizing committee and to the organizers of all workshops. Modern problems required m...
CRL Summer Research
COVID-19 is affecting our research @CRL since end of March 2020. Everyone is working from home, or better, trying to work from home during a pandemic. Our l...
Welcome Quentin!
The past few weeks have been challenging for all of us facing measures to conquer the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRL closed its doors and everyone is working...
2019
Happy Holidays
This has been an exciting year for CRL. The lab relocated from Hannover, Germany to Toronto, Canada. Most of us left our families and friends behind in thei...
CNRS-UofT Joint Research Programme
We are delighted that our collaborative project Dual-Arm Continuum Robots for Single-Port Interventions (DOORS) receives support within the 2019 CNRS-Univer...
CRL wins Gingerbread House Contest
Getting into the holiday spirit, CRL participated in a gingerbread building contest on 6th December. It was an amazing day as the lab got together...
5 Years of Research on Extensible Tendon-driven Continuum Robots
We have been working on dextrous extensible tendon-driven continuum robots since 2014. After 3 prototype iterations, a patent, conference and workshop paper...
CRL visits Toronto Aquarium
Continuum robots are largely inspired by animals. This fall's CRL excursion took us to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada in Toronto. CRL members analyzed the morp...
Visit of our Alumni Julia Starke
We welcomed Julia Starke @CRL today, Ph.D. candidate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany in our befriended laboratory High Performance Humanoid Te...
Our academic family expanded
We are happy to announce that our academic family expanded quite a bit over the past days. Jessica flew back to Leibniz University Hannover in Germany for t...
Paper on Joint-level Calibration Appears in RA-L
Our paper on joint-level calibration of concentric tube robots is was accepted as a letter appearing in IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. It feature...
UTM Newspaper on our Research
The newest issue of UTM's newspaper The Medium features our continuum robotics research. Fatima Adil interviewed Jessica and looked at our collection of rob...
Welcome Georg!
Today, Georg Boettcher, graduate student in the M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering programme at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany joins CRL as an international...
Welcome Priyanka!
We are beyond happy that Priyanka Rao is joining CRL as a Ph.D. Student in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering! Priyanka received her dual degree B.Tech...
Honourable Visit
Her Honourable Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, visited University of Toronto Mississauga. One stop of her tour were the new robotics l...
UofT Robotics Institute Launch
The University of Toronto Robotics Institute launched today. The Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship is the new headquarters of t...
Paper on Quaternion-based Smooth Trajectory Generation accepted
Reinhard's paper on Quaternion-based Smooth Trajectory Generator for Via Poses in SE(3) with Motion Constraints in Cartesian Space is accepted for ora...
Project on Continuum Robot Kinematics
CRL received a generous 5-year funding of $385,000 within the NSERC Discovery Grant program. We are honoured to also receive NSERC's Discovery Accelerator ...
Open Post-doctoral Researcher Position
CRL invites applications for a fully funded post-doctoral researcher position
RSS Conference accepts Paper
CRL is happy about Reinhard's paper on "On the Merits of Joint Space and Orientation Representations in Learning the Forward Kinematics in SE(3)" being acce...
New Project
We are happy to announce that we received XSeed funding for an exciting research project in collaboration with Eric Diller's Microrobotics Laboratory on “Co...
Young Global Leader
Jessica is welcomed as 1 of 127 Young Global Leaders for the Class of 2019. The mission of the Forum of Young Global Leaders is to create a dynamic globa...
CRL coming to Toronto
The Continuum Robotics Laboratory will come to Toronto in April 2019! Stay tuned!