Serving the world from its Canadian home and global offices, MDA (TSX:MDA), is an international space mission partner and a robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. With 2,000 employees in Canada, the US and the UK, MDA is leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more. With a track record of making ambitions come true, MDA enables highly skilled people to continually push boundaries, tackle big challenges, and imagine solutions that inspire and endure to change the world for the better, on the ground and in the stars. www.mda.space
In 2009 the Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation (CSii) was granted $15 million by the Canadian Network Centres of Excellence CECR program to establish a non-for-profit research incubator, to leverage Canadian investment in space technology for use in the development of Image Guided Automated Robotics (IGARTM) and support the research & development of IP generated by researchers in the field of medical robotics and related technologies. www.csii.ca/about-us