Robotics
“My $500 million Mars rover mistake”: A NASA engineer’s failure story
Aerospace engineer Chris Lewicki shares the moment he realised he’d made a massive mistake working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
WATCH: These Australian companies are helping to keep Australians safe from bushfires
Could drones help detect and fight bushfires? Here are two Australian companies developing technologies to do exactly that.
WATCH: New homegrown robotics lab promises to spearhead AI innovation
Industry leader Advanced Navigation has recently unveiled their latest tech lab promising development in the manufacturing of navigation technologies.
Becoming a robotic dog whisperer
How an electricity distributor in South Australia trained a robotic dog called Spot through reinforcement learning, priming its workforce to...
Webuild’s first robot factory to boost tunnel segment output
Webuild’s robot factory will produce one slab every seven minutes to help build a major railway line, compared with the...
3D bioprinting inside the human body could be possible thanks to new soft robot
Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm that could be used to 3D print...
Our future could be full of undying, self-repairing robots. Here’s how
If we’re going to put an AI brain somewhere, it’s likely going to be a robot. The next step –...
Future-proof your career by upskilling in robotics and artificial intelligence
QUT has responded to the skills gap with a new Master of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
A new generation of smart textiles that can move like a robot
A team from UNSW Sydney’s Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, and Tyree Foundation Institute of Health Engineering (Tyree iHealthE), led...
A day in the life of a mechatronics engineer
A recent graduate from University of Melbourne in mechatronics, Grace Brown is leading a team building Abi, a bipedal humanoid...
