engineering

I’m excited to be taking part at ENGCOMM 2023 as a judge! ENGCOMM is a leading global initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering and business students. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity that allows students to engage in a unique learning experience before they start their professional careers.

Nicholas Nadeau is the CTO of Halodi Robotics, a company that builds humanoid robots for different purposes like safety or medical treatment. We talked about different considerations that they needed to take into account and how they applied them while designing robots that should operate among humans and interact with them.

I’m honoured to have been nominated alongside my fellow robotics and python friend, Nicole Parrot, in the MENTOR OF THE YEAR category for the Startup Community Gala 2021! 🤖🙏🚀 Big shoutout to the whole Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator team, especially Bruno Morency, Justine Marchand, and Shannon Gavrilchuk, for creating amazing opportunities like Mentor Madness.

First international guest on the “Let’s Talk Robotics Podcast” hosted by Nicci Rossouw. Today I’m joined by the very talented Dr Nicholas Nadeau for a wide ranging talk! Nicholas is my first “international guest” and it’s great to see what happening in the rest of the world in robotics.

Recruiting isn’t easy. It can be a long and tedious process, especially for startups when you’re building the infrastructure to support rapid growth. I used to think that recruiters and hiring managers were cold and rude.

I spent a good part of my life in school, much of it studying engineering. From a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and biomedical engineering to a Ph.D. in collaborative robotics and machine learning, it was quite an adventure.

People say that you can’t do agile hardware development. I don’t believe that. While I’m not a fan of all the hype and buzz around “Agile,” I do believe in the core principles.

Data analysis of sensor data is a typical hardware engineering activity that often involves an Excel-based workflow. While Excel (and other spreadsheet tools) are great for quick and dirty, one-off analyses, a Python + pandas workflow can really takes things to the next level.

Once upon a time, at McGill University in Mechanical Engineering, I took a course called COMP 208 Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering. The goal was to give us future hardware engineers a foundation in programming, to allow us to automate, perform advanced calculations, and solve our engineering problems through code.