Kickoff Pics
Pictures from the kickoff announcement by the Hon. Minister Goodyear
Minister Goodyear and other VIPs
Graduate student Anqi Xu describing his work on human-robot interaction to the Federal Science Minister and other VIPs.

VIPs hearing about robotics research
Scientific Director Professor Dudek outlines the research of doctoral student Anqi Xu to federal science minister Goodyear and other VIPs include the VP of NSERC and the Principal and VP-Research of McGill University.

Science Minister Goodyear announces Strategic grants
Science Minister Goodyear announces the NCFRN, one other Strategic Network and the Strategic Grants. Strategic Grants are smaller undertakings (typically 2 or 3 professors). The NCFRN is the largest of the two Strategic Networks.

Dudek describes the vision
Scientific Director Gregory Dudek describes the vision and importance of robotics and the NCRFN at the announcement press conference

Régis Houde (Hydro Quebec)
Régis Houde from IREQ (Hydro Quebec) explains the importance of the NCFRN to Hydro Quebec, Quebec and Canada, and the importance of IREQ to a journalist from France 24 TV.
http://www.hydroquebec.com/innovation/fr/index.html
http://www.hydroquebec.com/innovation/en/index.html
