NuPort Robotics Inc.

$30,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2025-2026
Agreement period
December 1, 2025 – June 1, 2026
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2025-2026-Q4-1038417

Published purpose

Project involves supporting the development of additional tasks that a human performs while driving a truck in a distribution centre. This includes 2 major components in this project: (i) Robot Arm for attaching/detaching glad hands; (ii) Parking trucks. Project includes providing support for the development of hardware and software for robot arms for attaching and detaching glad hands for shunt trucks or semi trucks for truck and trailer coupling. A component of this project also includes support for development of a system for autonomous parking of shunt trucks.

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