��ɫ��Ƶ News - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Mosquitoes’ feeding tubes make ultrafine 3D-printing nozzles

webfull — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:39:14 +0000

Researchers in ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and at Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that makes female mosquito proboscides, or feeding tubes, into high-resolution 3D-printing nozzles. With its unique geometry, structure and mechanics, the proboscis enables printed line widths as fine as 20 microns, or a little smaller than a white blood cell. This is roughly twice as fine as what commercially available print

Published: 22 December 2025

��ɫ��Ƶ researchers develop safe, scalable vibration technique to improve lab-grown tissues

webfull — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:45:52 +0000

Researchers in ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have discovered a safe and low-cost method of engineering living materials such as tissues, organs and blood clots. By simply vibrating these materials as they form, scientists can dramatically influence how strong or, weak they become.

The findings, published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, could have a range of innovative applications, including in organ transplants, wound healing and regenerative medicine.

Published: 25 August 2025

Prof. James Forbes and co-authors Zi Cong Guo and Tim Barfoot win Best Paper at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

webfull — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:13:42 +0000

Prof. James Forbes, Zi Cong Guo, and Tim Barfoot win Best Paper at top robotics conference, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Their paper, "Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics," was selected out of 1606 submissions.

Published: 22 May 2025

Professor Jeffrey Bergthorson granted a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC)

webfull — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:25:43 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Jeffrey Bergthorson on being granted a Tier 1 CRC in Carbon-Free Circular Fuels!

Published: 26 March 2025

Academic Staff Posting: Tenure-Track Position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

webfull — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:47:56 +0000

��ɫ��Ƶ's Department of Mechanical Engineering invites applications for one tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. Areas of interest: (1) Thermal energy systems, and (2) Combustion and alternative fuels.

For more information and how to apply, please visit the Department's Employment page.

Published: 21 January 2025

NeuRoc Lab is Joining CIM

webfull — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:43:46 +0000

The NeuRoc Lab is Joining the Center of Intelligent Machine (CIM) @��ɫ��Ƶ

Published: 12 January 2024

NeuRoc Lab is joining the CRIR and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital

webfull — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:37:24 +0000

The NeuRoc Lab is joining the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital at Laval.

This will give us better access to clinicians and patients, putting our research closer to rehabilitation's needs.

Published: 12 January 2024

NeuRoC Lab featured in IEEE Spectrum

webfull — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:06:17 +0000

Our Lab was featured in IEEE Spectrum on our work in MyoSuite.

More about it in the IEEE Spectrum website.

Published: 31 August 2023

MyoChallenge 23 competition @ NeurIPS 23

webfull — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:36:47 +0000

The NeuROC Lab is coordinating the MyoChallenge with colleagues from the University of Twente, Northeastern University and Meta AI.

The challenge is based on MyoSuite and has one track on locomotion and one on manipulation.

The challenge is part of the competition track of the NeurIPS 23 conference.

For more information visit: MyoChallenge 23 website

Published: 20 August 2023

Flatworm-inspired medical adhesives stop blood loss

webfull — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:15:08 +0000

Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply pressure to the wound and seal the site with medical glue. But what happens when applying pressure is difficult or could make things worse? Or the surface of the wound is too bloody for glue? Drawing inspiration from nature, researchers from ��ɫ��Ƶ have developed a medical adhesive that could save lives, modeled after structures found in marine animals like mussels and flatworms.

Published: 13 October 2022