Grants and Contributions

Canadian Tarpaulin Manufacturers Ltd will enhance its business competitiveness by expending focused efforts and resources to strengthening the company's supply chain strategies.

Hire of a recent graduate - Research Associate

This project will test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to design (or optimize) a repeatable and scalable business process, which may result in new business methods for the firm’s primary offering is a unified, AI-ready, cloud-based coordination system that supports radiologists, teleradiology providers, and integrated healthcare networks in managing diagnostic workloads with enhanced speed, accuracy, and fairness.

Develop low cost, flexible and user friendly autonomous mobile robot (AMR), with competitive payload to power ratio, for applications in warehousing, logistics, manufacturing and agriculture.

This Canada–Germany collaboration aims to accelerate the discovery of next-generation lithium-ion battery materials by integrating self-driving laboratories (SDLs), advanced diagnostics, and AI. The project focuses on optimizing cathode–electrolyte combinations to improve battery performance, safety, and longevity. Using rapid electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), high-throughput characterization, and AI-guided optimization, the team will develop and validate materials and methods for scalable production. Partners include Pulsenics, NRC, McMaster University, Preli GmbH, and Helmholtz-Institute Münster/FZJ.

Antimicrobial resistance is a top 10 global health threat and innovations are required to combat a silent pandemic expected to cause more deaths than cancer by 2050. A leading candidate is the use of the oldest natural enemy of bacteria—their own viruses called bacteriophages or phages. There are no specific clinical criteria for bacteriophage susceptibility and testing with routine methods is cumbersome and manual. This Project proposes the use of a microfluidic device to screen bacteriophages for E. coli, Staphylococcus (including methicillin-resistant S. aureus), and Pseudomonas (including P. aeruginosa). This device expands on Sci-Bot technology using two fluorescent detectors for a screen of up to 30 phages in as little as 3 hours, to a tailored digital microfluidic chamber allowing for single droplet analysis, titration, and synergy. This builds on work with HHT and CRAFT colleagues and will be expanded to an NRC and Innovate UK collaboration on phage production.

The Project will support pilot testing of AI strategies, determine target architecture and quantitative technical objectives for implementation of an AI solution.

Project to push Gambit from purely AI based conversations to integrated context specific workflows.

The project aims to enhance and adapt the current version of the firm's app to fit the clinical needs of adult spine deformities, resulting in a significant expansion of addressable market and revenue potential.

The project aims to enhance machine perception so it can reliably distinguish between an actual wildfire and harmless heat sources such as hot rocks, barbecues, hot tubs, or vehicles. Making this distinction is critical to ensure water or fire suppressant is applied only where needed, minimizing waste and preventing unnecessary damage.