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A curated list of Canadian robotics open-source software, companies and researchers.

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Awesome Canadian Robotics Awesome

A curated list of Canadian robotics open-source software, datasets, companies, laboratories, and researchers.

The maintenance of this list is aligned with the proposition of the Canadian Robotics Council to better share information about robotics initiative in Canada. This is not a comprehensive list of everything happening in Canada related to robotics. We added abitrary criterias to be listed here with the intention to be transparent.

Contents

Open-Source Software

You need at least 15 stars on your repository to be listed here. The list is sorted by number of stars.

Datasets

  • The Boreas Dataset - The Boreas dataset was collected by driving a repeated route over the course of 1 year resulting in stark seasonal variations. In total, Boreas contains over 350km of driving data including several sequences with adverse weather conditions such as rain and heavy snow.
    • pyboreas - Devkit for the Boreas autonomous driving dataset. GitHub Repo stars
  • The Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset - The CADC dataset, collected during winter within the Region of Waterloo, Canada, aims to promote research to improve self-driving in adverse weather conditions.
  • Leddar PixSet Dataset - The First Full-Waveform Flash LIDAR Dataset for Autonomous Vehicle R&D. The PixSet dataset contains 97 sequences for a total of roughly 29k frames using the AV sensor suite. Each frame has been manually annotated with 3D bounding boxes. The sequences have been gathered in various Canadian environments (e.g., urban, suburban like highway), climatic (e.g., sunny, cloudy, rainy) conditions and illumination (e.g., day, night, twilight) conditions with an instrumented vehicle.
  • The Canadian Planetary Emulation Terrain Energy-Aware Rover Navigation (enav-planetary) Dataset - Developed by UToronto's STARS Lab, the Energy-Aware Planetary Navigation Dataset has 1.2 km of data from a typical rover's sensor payload. The goal of this dataset is to promote rover energy management strategies for future exploratory missions to the Moon and Mars. Introduced in The Canadian Planetary Emulation Terrain Energy-Aware Rover Navigation Dataset.
    • enav-planetary-dataset - ROS packages to visualize and interact with the data in RViz, helper scripts in Python to fetch and plot data from the rosbags. GitHub Repo stars
  • The Montmorency dataset - The dataset contains the ground truth species, diameter at breast height (DBH) and position of more than 1000 trees across four forests, as well as 11 trajectories of a lidar-equipped robot going through these forests.
  • The Montmorency Forest Wintertime Dataset - The dataset was collected in the Montmorency subarctic forest and presents fluctuating weather, including light and heavy snow, rain, and drizzle. It contains 18.8km of autonomous navigation in a teach-and-repeat mode.
  • Precise Synthetic Image and LiDAR Dataset for Autonomous Vehicle Perception (presil) - The dataset contains over 50,000 instances and includes high-definition images with full resolution depth information, semantic segmentation (images), point-wise segmentation (point clouds), ground point labels (point clouds), and detailed annotations for vehicles and people in Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V), a commercial video game.
    • DeepGTAV-PreSIL - Data generation code used to mine data from GTAV. GitHub Repo stars
    • PreSIL-tools - Scripts for generating ground planes, splits, and visualizations from the data. GitHub Repo stars
  • Forest image (PercepTree) datasets - This repository contains two datasets: a 43,000 synthetic forest images and a 100 real image dataset. Both include high-definition RGB images with depth information, bounding box, instance segmentation masks and keypoints annotation. GitHub Repo stars
  • University of Toronto Indoor 3D Dataset - This repository contains a robot navigation dataset in crowded indoor environment. It includes the lidar frames, their localization computed by ICP based algorithm PointMap, and the labels provided by automated annotation approach. It was introduced in Learning Spatiotemporal Occupancy Grid Maps for Lifelong Navigation in Dynamic Scenes. GitHub Repo stars

Companies

Companies with their primary mission focusing on robotics and registered in Canada. You need at least ten (10) employees and be in operation for at least five (5) years to be listed here. The list is sorted by alphabetical order.

Robot manufacturers

  • Avidbots - Designs, manufactures, sells, services, and supports autonomous cleaning robots.
  • Bluewrist - Develops industrial automation solutions and products in the areas of robotics and machine vision, including robot guidance, bin-picking, flexible inspection, 3D scanning and robot calibration.
  • Cellula Robotics - Designs and produces subsea robotic systems.
  • Clearpath - Designs, produces, and distributes robotic systems. They have an active GitHub repo.
  • FingerTech Robotics - Designs and manufactures robot parts.
  • Kinova - Designs, manufactures, sells, services, and supports robotic arms. They have an active GitHub repo.
  • IndroRobotics - Is a UAV, ground and sea robotics research and development company.
  • Marginally Clever Robots, Ltd. - Through education and thought leadership, we empower people to choose STEM/STEAM careers, build robots, and solve their problems sustainably.
  • Robotiq - Designs, manufactures, sells, services, and supports robotic grippers.

Aerospace

Natural Resources

Warehouse Robotics

Organisations and Divisions

Teams, divisions, or subsidaiary working on robotics within a larger organization.

Laboratories

To be on this list, the director has to have at least 1000 citations on Google Scholar. The list is sorted by alphabetical order.

Alberta

British Columbia

Ontario

Quebec

New Brunswick

Nova Scotia

  • Advanced Control and Mechatronics Laboratory - From Dalhousie University and specialized in robust nonlinear control, teleoperation systems, multi-agent systems cooperation, intelligent transportation control, haptics, exoskeletons, human machine interfaces, model predictive control, and assistive robotics.

Newfoundland

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