Budding entrepreneurs, leading scientists and future business leaders from the University of Toronto community played a leading role at the 2024 Collision tech conference in downtown Toronto.
Waabi, a self-driving trucking startup founded by University of Toronto computer science professor Raquel Urtasun, has raised US$$200 million in series B funding to support the deployment of fully autonomous, AI-powered trucks in 2025.
The Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association has presented Professor Sheila McIlraith with a 2024 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding research excellence in artificial intelligence during her academic career.
Assistant professors Florian Shkurti and Igor Gilitschenski are researching new methods of vision-language models for robot manipulation technologies to improve how robotics systems perceive and safely interact with people and their environment.
