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An earthworm robot… for the Moon!

  With its robot inspired by earthworms and snakes, a team at Polytechnique Montréal and the University of Manitoba (Mahdi Alaei, PhD student and Professor Nan Wu) is planning to provide space agencies and commercial planetary exploration companies with a ...

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Investigating brains with a simple pen stroke

  The state of an individual's fine motor skills can be assessed after they perform a series of exercises that measure both reaction speed and gesture precision. (Photo : Martin Primeau) Clinicians will soon benefit from a new tool to measure neuromo ...

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Robots in the mine

  Canadian mining companies hope to automate some of their ore drilling and hauling operations by 2030. (Photo : Agnico-Eagle) Within a few years, robots will replace humans in mines, for example, autonomously drilling rock or transporting ore to the surf ...

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A compact camera that sees through snow and fog

  Professor Moutanabbir's team is designing semiconductors that make "vision" possible in the SWIR and MWIR infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum- where use is difficult, owing to less-suitable tools currently available. (Credit: ...

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Cancer & AI working together for treatment

    The algorithm developed by the Polytechnique Montreal team in collaboration with the CHUM, analyzes CT and PET scans (among other images), to determine a prognosis for the patient. (Credit : Pr Samuel Kadoury) A group at Polytechnique Montreal is work ...

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Springtime ice-jams! Reproducing river-flow behaviour – from the comfort of a research lab

  In their laboratory simulator- one of kind in Canada- the Polytechnique Montréal team reproduces the conditions under which ice forms and ice jams build up  (Photo : Professor Shakibaeinia' laboratory) Every spring (and sometimes even during winter ...

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Teeth... as designed by AI

  Integrating machine learning algorithms into dental prosthesis design process could decrease design error frequency. (Photo : Laboratoire de recherche MAGNU) Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon find applications.... in our mouths!? A   Polytechnique ...

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Inventing 6G

  Mobile antennas in the 5G range are small, which makes them easy to integrate into electronic circuits; here they are on a millimeter-wave beamformer circuit. Newer 6G antennas will be even smaller. (Photo: Mohammad Sharawi) While "5G"- aka th ...

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Jetting of towards planes… without pilots

  The Falcon 10X business jet from French manufacturer Dassault is one of many new models that incorporate touch screens in the cockpit. The delivery of Dassault’s first planes is scheduled for 2025. (Photo : Dassault Aviation) In his Polytechnique Montré ...

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Autonomous cars on the roads... and drones in the skies

  Before driving on our roads, each autonomous car will have to obtain a certification from Transport Canada, a step that’s only possible if cars are shielded from computer attacks. (Photo:  Eschenzweig, license CC BY-SA 4.0). By putting in-car artificial ...

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AI – a potential helping hand for humanitarian aid

  For the training of artificial intelligence tools developed by HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, images of disasters used- including those generated by the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the West Indies in 2016. (PHOTO: Haiti Hit by Hurricane Ma ...

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Biofabrication: contrôler la qualité des protéines… dès leur sortie de la cellule

  By pairing a biosensor- like this one- with a bioreactor filled with cultured cells, Professor De Crescenzo wants to ensure that the quality of antibodies is monitored during the manufacturing process, rather than after its been completed. (Photo: Marti ...

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Permafrost: learning to build on shifting soil

  In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...

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Miniature Northern Lights- in hydroponic greenhouses

  By exposing a gas to electric field, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created. (Photo: Sean Watson)   In a greenhouse on Montréal's North Shore, Stephan Reuter will soon be testing a device likely to accelerate plant growth, assist plants to ...

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Mass produced hockey sticks… from braids!?

  PhD student Maissaloun El-Jakl, who works in Professor Louis Laberge Lebel's laboratory, is developing part of a mass production-oriented braiding and pultrusion process for composite hockey stick handles. (Photo: Martin Primeau) Braided hockey sti ...

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Giant leaps forward in spinal cord imaging

  Thanks to a protocol developed by Professor Julien Cohen-Adad and his collaborators, it's now possible to use AI to read spinal cord MRI data. (Photo : NeuroPoly) Not content with just one, two articles penned by Cohen-Adad and his team have just b ...