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Transportation & warehousing

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    Entrepreneurship

    Canada’s first self-driving truck company disrupts how goods are moved

    October 2020
    A Globalink Research Internship leads to graduate studies in Canada for the founder of NuPort Robotics, the country’s first autonomous trucking company that uses eco-friendly, self-driving electric trucks for short-haul drives.
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    Social innovation

    Using an autonomous bus to reduce food insecurity

    April 2020
    With the goal of improving access to healthy, quality, affordable and sufficient food for the residents of Montréal’s Little Burgundy, a Mitacs-funded project humanizes innovation by developing a socially relevant autonomous shuttle bus.
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    Commercialization

    Ahoy! Research-in-a-box ships from Kelowna to Montreal

    October 2019
    Considering the Canadian marine shipping industry is valued at $30 billion, and it is a source of income for nearly 100,000 jobs*, shipping splashes across the nation.
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    Sustainability

    Manitoba collaboration results in innovation that stabilizes rural roads

    March 2019
    Winnipeg-based Cypher Environmental is determined to put an end to the choking dust clouds on unpaved roads seen every day across rural and Northern Manitoba.
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    Social innovation

    Long-range drone to deliver food and medicine to Canada’s North

    August 2016
    For communities in rural Manitoba and Canada’s North, seasonal ice roads are a vital part of living remotely; however, climate change has caused them to form later or melt earlier than in previous years. Communities have had to charter aircraft to deliver basic foodstuffs and medicine — an expensive undertaking that is contributing to skyrocketing costs of living.
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    Commercialization

    Research into remote sensors inspires interns to start their own company

    December 2013
    We’d be looking to hire the interns if they weren’t starting their own company - and we just might be one of their first customers when they do!
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    Business ROI

    Navigating the waters of new technology

    December 2012
    She took software that was primarily used for training and moved it into the realms of design and research tools.

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