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The University of New Brunswick (UNB) has established itself as a remarkably versatile research institution with particular strengths spanning robotics, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, and human-machine interfaces. With foundational contributions dating back to the mid-1990s — including the highly influential 1995 paper on visual attention modeling that has garnered over 1,100 citations — UNB has consistently shaped the trajectory of robotics and AI research for three decades. UNB's robotics portfolio is impressively broad. The institution has made significant strides in multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for GPS-denied environments, human-robot interaction, prosthetics control, and knowledge representation through ontologies. Researchers here played a pioneering role in developing IEEE standards for robotics and automation ontologies, cementing their influence on how the global community formalizes robotic knowledge and reasoning. Their work on prosthetic limb control — particularly targeted muscle reinnervation and neurorobotic sensory feedback — has transformed rehabilitation robotics, with studies demonstrating that restoring touch and kinesthesia to amputees fundamentally reshapes brain behavior and motor control. UNB also leads cutting-edge research in soft robotics and smart materials, developing self-healing, stretchable conductive hydrogels reinforced with nanocellulose for wearable sensing, soft robotic actuators, and strain sensors — research that has collectively attracted hundreds of citations in just a few years. Their affect detection work further enhances socially intelligent robots capable of natural human-robot interaction. For prospective students and collaborators, UNB offers a uniquely interdisciplinary environment where robotics, neuroscience, materials science, and AI converge — producing research that is not only academically impactful but genuinely transformative for human health and autonomous systems.