Canadian Robotics Council raises $100,000

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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 International Innovation Cluster for Superior Manufacturing. The CRC mentioned this funding will play a significant function in serving to it develop Canada’s robotics ecosystem and construct visibility for Canadian robotics capabilities, each at house and overseas.

The CRC was launched in 2022 and formally integrated as a non-profit in 2023. It mentioned the funding can even be pivotal in growing its organizational construction to sustainably pursue this mission.

CRC can even be part of NGen’s Cluster Accelerator Community as its robotics lead. This may allow the council to kind 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 convey collectively key representatives from business, academia and authorities to debate the state and alternatives of robotics in Canada.

“NGen’s present community consists of 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 vital function in serving to us develop the Council’s membership, making certain that Canadian innovators do not stay siloed by business or market, and as an alternative work collectively to lift 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 steer NGen’s robotics cluster in a method that drives progress 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 likely be talking on the Robotics Summit & Expo, which is produced by The Robotic Report and takes place Might 1-2 in Boston. Gariepy’s speak, “The Robots Are Right here. What’s Subsequent?,” runs on Might 2 from 1:30-2:15 will study how corporations and organizations can reap the benefits of new robotics capabilities that may assist form their futures. Clearpath can even be showcasing its autonomous mobile robots in sales space 434.

Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and Medtronic will ship keynotes on the Robotics Summit & Expo, which can have 5,000-plus attendees from the worldwide robotics ecosystem. There can even be 150+ exhibitors showcasing enabling applied sciences, services and products for industrial robotics builders.