For internal inventory of computers and peripheral accessories, see the listing on our Google Sheet.

Our lab computers have been purchased to meet the lab's specific needs. For environmental sustainability reasons, the lab does not provide a personal computer for each graduate student. Rather, lab computers are provided to the student based on their project and equipment needs.

In particular, different robots require different types of computers to operate, develop etc. Those of you working with the Ohmni robot will likely work with a laptop to be able to move around the field with the robot. Those of you working with Panda robots will need to access desktops with real-time capabilities. Most lab computers are Linux-based systems (ROS-friendly) for this reason.

Students working on responsible AI projects and those needing computer graphics processing power for robotics projects will have access to our shared GPU-machine, Avanaa (see further info below). Our ML training needs are occasional and small compared to other labs whose main research contribution is in ML. Avanaa more than suffices the training needs of the lab. However, if you find that you need much more compute power for specific projects, you can access larger shared resources the lab has access to (e.g., Compute Canada, shared compute clusters in France via ILLS etc.). Don't be shy to ask about these larger compute resources if you think your project belongs to this latter category.