robots /channels/taxonomy/term/11860/all en CFI invests $3.9 M in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Research /channels/channels/news/cfi-invests-39-m-mcgill-research-331980 <p><a href="/newsroom/channels/news/cfi-invests-39-m-mcgill-research-332318">Read the story on ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Newsroom</a></p> <p>Each ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ recipient will also receive matching funds from the Quebec government for their research endeavours, contributing to the total project funding noted below. </p> <p><b>Complete list of CFI JELF-funded projects: </b></p> <p>Oana Maria Balmau: Efficient Storage Systems for Real Time Edge Computing </p> <p>CFI funding: $100,000</p> <p>Total project funding: $317,032</p> <p> </p> Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:34:04 +0000 webfull 172191 at /channels Un bateau-robot pour « scanner » la santé des lacs /channels/channels/news/un-bateau-robot-pour-scanner-la-sante-des-lacs-299781 <p>Imaginez un bateau robotisé équipé de capteurs qui sillonne les plans d’eau pour récolter des données sur la température, le pH, l’oxygène dissous et les contaminants. Grâce à la transmission d’un signal acoustique, ces données s’affichent en temps réel sur une carte qui permet de connaître la distribution et la dynamique des polluants, à des millions d’emplacements.</p> Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:04:34 +0000 webfull 152085 at /channels Dot-drawing with drones /channels/news/dot-drawing-drones-261928 <p><strong><em>ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Newsroom</em></strong></p> <p><em>Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals</em></p> <p>You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals?</p> <p><span>That’s the idea behind a project in Paul Kry’s laboratory at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University’s School of Computer Science. Prof. Kry and a few of his students have teamed up to program tiny drones to create dot drawings – an artistic technique known as stippling.</span></p> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:36:58 +0000 webfull 120151 at /channels