robotics

A new digital fabrication facility, ProtoLAB, opened this week at Swinburne University of Technology. The lab will house industrial robots for large scale architectural design prototyping. The design of the space is intended to open up the fabrication process to passers-by and allows observation and interest to be garnered by the large windows that open … Continue reading Robotics lab to encourage hands-on Industry 4.0 knowledge →

Research into developing robots with a sense of touch has taken a further step, with the development of a new form of tactile sensors. The researchers, from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland, have used nanometre-thin films of organic LEDs (OLED) and organic photodiodes (OPD), which measure soft touch. While … Continue reading Durable touch sensors developed for cobot applications →

As robotics researchers, students and enthusiasts gathered at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, home-town teams from universities in Sydney were hoping for simulated and solid success. Two local universities came out with first place honours, University of Sydney (USYD) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in the Soccer Simulation 2D League and the … Continue reading RoboCup results in wins for local universities →

On July 10, federal Science Minister Karen Andrews and her WA counterpart, Dave Kelly, signed an MoU outlining WA’s involvement in Australia’s space capabilities. The agreement involves $6 million in investment from the federal government to develop partnerships and engagement between WA industry and the global space ecosystem. The investment will be separated into two … Continue reading WA to join in Australia’s space efforts →

Robotics teams and experts have converged on Sydney to compete in the 2019 RoboCup, aiming to claim the World Champion title. Held for the first time in Sydney, 170 teams including 1,200 participants from research laboratories and universities around the world will compete not only in soccer, but robotic urban search and rescue missions, manufacturing, … Continue reading 2019 RoboCup kicks off →

Siemens has announced the speakers and experts who will present at its annual conference Digitalize. To be held in Brisbane on July 23, the conference focusses on the process of digitalisation across industry sectors. The two visiting speakers are Martin Powell, head of urban development, and Gerhard Kress, vice president of data services. Kress has … Continue reading Siemens announces Digitalize 2019 →

A new competition in robotic vision aims to address the problem of overly-confident robots misidentifying objects in the real world. The Robotic Vision Challenge, launched by the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision which is headquartered at QUT, invites challengers to detect objects in video data from high-fidelity simulation of three different types of domestic service robots. … Continue reading Robotic vision competition targets overconfident robots →

QUT researchers who are working on how robots can be taught to grasp objects in real-world situations, have received more than $98,000 in funds from Amazon. The Amazon grant coincides with the publication of a separate study involving QUT researchers on robot grasping. QUT robotics researcher Professor Peter Corke, founding director of the Australian Centre … Continue reading QUT researchers building robots that can grip →

Startup company Ikkiworks has developed a companion robot to help soothe and monitor the vital signs of sick children while they are at home and away from hospital. The robot, called ‘ikki’, has been developed with input from staff, patients and their families at Westmead Children’s Hospital. Ikkiworks has been supported with a $25,000 Minimum … Continue reading Companion robot helps monitor sick children →

A Queensland high school is building an automation and robotics centre that will see more students learning about the latest technologies. Alexandra Hills State High School has started constructing the new $4.77 million Centre for Excellence in Automation and Robotics. Member for Capalaba Don Brown said the school’s future-focussed programs were becoming increasingly popular. The … Continue reading Queensland school builds centre for automation and robotics →

A University of Sydney mechanical engineering student has programmed a robot that can produce a traditional Chinese ink painting, a style known as guóhuà. Armed with two paintbrushes, a pot of ink and art paper, the robot is programmed to paint small chickens – the traditional elementary subject that apprentice artists must master before moving … Continue reading University of Sydney robot has learned how to paint →

Researchers from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have offered a glimpse into what the robots of the future could look like. In a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, CSIRO’s Active Integrated Matter Future Science Platform (AIM FSP) indicates robots could soon be taking their engineering cues from evolution. This concept, known as Multi-Level Evolution … Continue reading CSIRO researchers offer look at future of robots →

A new University of New South Wales (UNSW) online course arms employees and businesses to work in a rapidly evolving world affected by artificial intelligence (AI), big data and robotics. As technologies evolve at an exponential rate, businesses and employees need tools to design a secure future amidst disruptions to contemporary work practices, the university explained. In … Continue reading New UNSW course equips people to work in robotics and AI world →

A new partnership between Swinburne University and a research facility at the University of Stuttgart in Germany will see collaborative research to develop new materials and production processes. Swinburne has become the first Australian university to be made a full member of ARENA 2036, a flexible factory of the future on the University of Stuttgart’s Baden-Wuerttemberg campus. Swinburne … Continue reading Swinburne joins new partnership on advanced materials, production processes →

The technology arm of the CSIRO, Data61, will compete in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subterranean (SubT) Challenge, with the legged and airborne robot technology it has developed. The SubT Challenge aims to explore new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments. Teams from around the world have been invited … Continue reading CSIRO team to compete in US robotics challenge →

Machines and algorithms could displace 75 million jobs globally by 2022. But they may also help create 133 million positions during that same period, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. The research, published in The Future of Jobs 2018, predicts that by 2025 more than half of all current workplace tasks will be performed … Continue reading Machines to do more tasks than humans by 2025, new report suggests →

Robotics and supply chain automation company, GreyOrange, has announced installations for the deployment of its Butler robotics system at three new sites, located in Japan and Europe. The upcoming site in Japan is for Trusco Nakayama Corporation, a leading wholesale trading company specialising in machine tools and equipment for production sites, wholesale distributors and retailers. … Continue reading GreyOrange announces three new sites for deployment of its Butler robotics system across Japan and Europe →

GreyOrange, a multinational robotics and supply chain automation company, and Advanced Warehouse Solutions, their distributor in Australia, will showcase the Butler range of robotics solutions at CeMAT Australia 2018, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 24-26 July. The ButlerTM goods-to-person system, comprising Butler M and Butler XL, can handle a payload of 100 … Continue reading GreyOrange introduces supply chain automation solutions at CeMAT →

Kilter Rural, Australia’s largest grower of irrigated, broad acre, certified organic crops, will be deploying a pioneering robotic weeding equipment in Lake Boga, in north-west Victoria, that could transform tomato growing industry in the state. The project will be supported with a $250,000 through grand by the Victorian government through its Food Source Victoria program and is expected … Continue reading Weeding robot to boost organic farming in Victoria →

Fastbrick Robotics, an Australian robotic technology company, has reached a deal to pilot test its construction robot, Hadrian X, in Mexico. The Perth-based company has developed a construction robot capable of building an entire single-storey house in under 2 days – autonomously and with almost no human input or intervention. The deal with GP Vivienda, a subsidiary … Continue reading Australian company’s construction robot to help solve Mexico’s home shortage →