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The Canadian Robotics Council (CRC) in December 2023 entered right into a $100,000 funding partnership with Subsequent Technology Manufacturing Canada (NGen) — Canada’s World Innovation Cluster for Superior Manufacturing. The CRC mentioned this funding will play an important function in serving to it develop Canada’s robotics ecosystem and construct visibility for Canadian robotics capabilities, each at residence and overseas.
The CRC was launched in 2022 and formally integrated as a non-profit in 2023. It mentioned the funding may even be pivotal in creating its organizational construction to sustainably pursue this mission.
CRC may even be a part of NGen’s Cluster Accelerator Community as its robotics lead. This may allow the council to type significant collaborations with NGen’s adjoining community clusters, together with these in AI, photonics and automation, on mutually useful tasks and occasions.
CRC and NGen will kick off the partnership by collectively organizing the CRC’s third annual symposium in Toronto on June 14, 2024. The symposium will deliver collectively key representatives from trade, academia and authorities to debate the state and alternatives of robotics in Canada.
“NGen’s present community contains robotics end-users in mining, mobility, and superior manufacturing, and connects important however lacking dots within the Canadian robotics ecosystem,” mentioned Hallie Siegel, co-founder and co-chair of the Canadian Robotics Council and managing director of technique and partnerships on the College of Toronto’s Robotics Institute. “Networking with NGen’s complimentary clusters will play a necessary function in serving to us develop the Council’s membership, making certain that Canadian innovators don’t stay siloed by trade or market, and as a substitute work collectively to boost consciousness of, encourage, and facilitate robotics adoption and improvement from coast to coast.”
“The Canadian Robotics Council has demonstrated it has a powerful and united imaginative and prescient for rising Canada’s robotics ecosystem,” mentioned Christy Michalak, director of superior manufacturing improvement packages at NGen. “Because the nationwide voice for Canada’s robotics sector, the CRC is uniquely poised to guide NGen’s robotics cluster in a means that drives development and innovation in Canada’s manufacturing sector.”
Ryan Gariepy is govt committee co-chair of the CRC. He’s additionally co-founder and CTO of each Clearpath Robotics by Rockwell Automation and OTTO Motors by Rockwell Automation. Gariepy will probably be talking on the Robotics Summit & Expo, which is produced by The Robotic Report and takes place Could 1-2 in Boston. Gariepy’s discuss, “The Robots Are Right here. What’s Subsequent?,” runs on Could 2 from 1:30-2:15 will look at how firms and organizations can make the most of new robotics capabilities that may assist form their futures. Clearpath may even be showcasing its autonomous cellular robots in sales space 434.
Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and Medtronic will ship keynotes on the Robotics Summit & Expo, which may have 5,000-plus attendees from the worldwide robotics ecosystem. There may even be 150+ exhibitors showcasing enabling applied sciences, services for business robotics builders.
