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Material differences

High-tech start-ups seem to be the flavour of the month. Brent Balinski spoke to serial entrepreneur Chris Gilbey from graphene technology start-up Imagine Intelligent Materials about the importance of new businesses, and about what’s on the horizon for Imagine IM.
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Stepping up to the challenge

The writing is on the wall for Australian car component makers. But, while some will surely die in the next couple of years, others are redirecting their energies to new challenges. Hartley Henderson writes.
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Research funding fraught with hurdles and dead-ends

The long-awaited Innovative Manufacturing CRC will get underway in earnest this month, during a period in which the spotlight is very much on getting more bang for the country’s research buck. Brent Balinski spoke to the UTS’s Professor Roy Green about Australia’s innovation system.
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Technical skills not enough

While technical skills are important, they are not everything. As Alan Johnson writes, manufacturers are advised to also include vital softer skills in their training programs. Employees and employers are calling for more e-learning opportunities.
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Cage free robot collaborators coming to a factory near you

More and more factories - and the robotics companies that supply them - are seeing the appeal of collaborative robots. Brent Balinski spoke to Dr Esben Østergaard and Dr Rodney Brooks, both CTOs/co-founders of the two leading "co-bot" companies, about the development of the category, what it offers, and what the future might hold.
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