15 Years of Innovation

As owner of the largest solar park devoted to partnership research in Canada, the Université de Sherbrooke has become a major hub of attraction in the domain. In cutting-edge laboratories, research teams are developing solar technologies that are promising for the environment and might soon be utilized in space! 

Smart assistive robots that interact with seniors have been developed by a research team at the 3IT. Thanks to their complementary expertise, the members of this team can carry out the full innovation chain from conception to robots, including evaluation in a real-world environments.

The 3IT and its partners won a global race to develop affordable high-performance infrared cameras. This innovation and technological transfer success would not have been possible without the exceptional synergy between the research and industrial communities.

The 3IT is recognized worldwide for its expertise in developing high-precision medical imaging scanners with unparalleled image quality. Over the past 15 years, research in this area has evolved at a blistering pace, making promising advances in detecting brain tumours and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Through its multidisciplinary research and access to state-of-the-art equipment, the 3IT offers a work environment highly conducive to entrepreneurial projects. An example is Exonetik, one of the first companies to emerge from the 3IT which designs high-performance magnetorheologic actuators.

Audrey Corbeil Therrien and David Rancourt embody the new generation of researchers at the 3IT. Their research is focused on current sustainable development issues: the environmental impact of energy consumption in artificial intelligence and powering the aeronautics of tomorrow.