Algonquin College Public Relations students have helped raise more than $25,000 – with support from the Senators Community Foundation – for Roger Neilson Children’s Hospice, a pediatric hospice that provides end-of-life care and bereavement support to children with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
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National Robotics Week is celebrated annually from April 6 to 13. To mark the week, we look inside Algonquin College’s Bachelor of
Engineering (Automation and Robotics) degree program.
The days of robots working alongside humans is here and Algonquin College students are ready for the experience.
Autonomous and remotely operated systems are deployed the world over with ever increasing frequency. Such systems are being implemented in many instances to reduce risk to human workers, to achieve higher efficiencies in manufacturing and to improve the quality of lives through robot-assisted rehabilitation and care. Variations of these systems are often in place for reasons of feasibility, efficiency, safety or practicality. Continue reading
Algonquin College co-ordinator and game development professor Dushan Horvat and two of his former students Antoine Plouffe and Noah
Maxwell have gone back in time.
Alongside Algonquin College, the exhibition was produced in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Air Force, CAE and the National Research Council Canada, the three have created part of a new permanent Cold War exhibit that is set to open at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum on April 5.
Horvat and his team re-created a digital kiosk related to a digital early warning (DEW) system in the Yukon. Called the Bar1 Station, these stations were created to detect early land or sea invasion by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
They produced the interactive display using digital creation, animation, 3D modelling, and narration. They were tasked to create a station experience and showcase the facility. Continue reading