UofTrivia
This is the room number of the robotics institute.
What is 512 (or 522)?
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Boreas
This city has the "largest number of construction cranes in the sky" of any North American city.
What is Toronto?
This is the current number of ASRL members (not counting undergraduate students).
This is the name of the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings.
What is Shakey?
This is the number of colleges at UofT.
Seven (Innis, New College, St. Michael's Trinity, University, Victoria, Woodsworth)
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Informed RRT*
This animal is the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult.
This is the latest Ph.D. student to graduate with Tim as their supervisor.
Who is Mona Gridseth?
This is the language from which the word "robot" comes from.
What is Czech?
This UofT alumnus was the first Canadian woman in space and is celebrated at UTIAS with a banner in the cafeteria.
Who is Roberta Bondar?
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Full STEAM Ahead
This country's national animal is the unicorn.
What is Scotland?
This is the first Ph.D. student to graduate with Tim as a supervisor.
Who is Paul Furgale?
This is the celestial object which Gauss was tracking in 1801 that led to him pioneering least squares, a technique now commonly used in robotics.
What is Ceres?
This is the year that UTIAS was founded.
What happened in 1949?
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Keeping an Eye on Things
In 2009, this symbol became the first Morse code character to be added since WWII.
What is the @ symbol?
This is the name of Tim's Ph.D. supervisor.
Who is Gabriele D'Eleuterio?
This is the name for the series of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles developed at Carnegie Mellon starting in 1984. The 5th model was able to autonomously drive from Pittsburgh to San Diego.
What is Navlab?
This is the number of total students enrolled at UofT in the 2022-2023 academic year.
How much is 97,678?
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There’s No Place Like Home
This Korean conglomerate, typically known for tech, is the main contractor that built Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
What is Samsung?
What is the name of the student first-author on ASRL's highest cited paper?
Jonathan D Gammell
What is the first robot to successfully drive on an extra-terrestrial planetary surface?
Lunokhod 1