Using some of the newest technologies in underwater archaeology, Quentin Mackie (anthropology) and Alison Proctor (engineering) may have discovered one of the oldest archaeological finds in Canada. Right now all they know for sure is that they’ve discovered a line of basketball-sized rocks on the seafloor. Those rocks may well add to the mounting evidence about the ingenuity of an ice age people who lived and thrived on the west coast of Canada while much of Europe was still under ice. It’s a tantalizing possibility.

At first, the idea was a futuristic pipe dream. It popped into Dr. Quentin Mackie’s head while the University of Victoria researcher was attending a conference on underwater archeology and the first peopling of the Americas. One day, he thought, arc…

Nearly 200 elementary and middle school students will be at the University of Victoria this Saturday, working on ways robotic technology might help seniors overcome daily challenges. UVic’s Faculties of Education and Engineering are sponsoring the V…

Growing up in southern China, Hui Zhang had the same dream as millions of children around the world—robots to do the household chores and farm work. Zhang decided to pursue the dream of designing “intelligent machines” by earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from China’s Harbin Institute of Technology and Jilin University, respectively, and completing a PhD at the University of Victoria last June.

If humans could breathe water, Maeva Gauthier would spend weeks in the sea. Instead, the master's graduate (earth and ocean sciences) must content herself with the robotic reach of an underwater vehicle.

Local girls from grades five to 12 will be gathering at the University of Victoria this weekend to construct robots in what could only be described as a futuristic bowl-a-rama. Organized by UVic’s Women in Engineering and Computer Science (WECS) out…

Build a robot and make it bowl. That’s what girls from grades six to 12 are invited to do at the University of Victoria this weekend. Organized by UVic’s Women in Engineering and Computer Science (WECS) outreach program, the March 8 “International W…

The ocean, teeming with life, and the lifeless reaches of outer space are both airless, low-gravity environments into which it is dangerous and expensive to send humans.