Professor Arun K. Misra winner of 2017 Dirk Brouwer Award
Professor Arun K. Misra recently received the Dirk Brouwer Award "for his outstanding and lasting contributions to astrodynamics of tethered satellite systems, flexible spacecraft, spacecraft orbiting...
View ArticleMcGill has recently reopened (new deadline: May 15th) applications for the...
1. Doctoral and Masters (Thesis): If interested, we encourage that you first obtain approval from a Professor in the department who would be willing to supervise your research and then complete the...
View ArticleSurgical sutures inspired by human tendons
Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem,...
View ArticleSynthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords
Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a...
View ArticleUsing sound and bubbles to make bandages stickier and longer lasting
Researchers have discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasound waves and bubbles. This breakthrough could lead to new advances in medical adhesives, especially...
View ArticleFlatworm-inspired medical adhesives stop blood loss
Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply...
View ArticleMyoChallenge 23 competition @ NeurIPS 23
The NeuROC Lab is coordinating the MyoChallenge with colleagues from the University of Twente, Northeastern University and Meta AI.The challenge is based on MyoSuite and has one track on locomotion and...
View ArticleNeuRoC Lab featured in IEEE Spectrum
Our Lab was featured in IEEE Spectrum on our work in MyoSuite.More about it in the IEEE Spectrum website.Published: 31 August 2023
View ArticleNeuRoc Lab is joining the CRIR and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital
The NeuRoc Lab is joining the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital at Laval.This will give us better access to clinicians...
View ArticleNeuRoc Lab is Joining CIM
The NeuRoc Lab is Joining the Center of Intelligent Machine (CIM) @McGill Published: 12 January 2024
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