Robotics
Watch: Australian engineers make history at ‘robot Olympics’
An Australian team of robotics experts took out second-place at the world’s leading robotics competition last month.
Australian robotics team built for Olympics success
The world’s leading robotics competition, held in the United States this month, will welcome a Brisbane-based team of CSIRO experts...
How realistic is Elon Musk’s ‘Tesla Bot’? We asked an expert
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk recently announced the company’s plan to build a humanoid robot designed to take on...
Australian engineers build world-first EX-rated inspection robot
Until recently inspecting tight combustible spaces could only be done by humans. The Magneto-EX aims to change that.
This inflatable robotic hand provides real-time tactile control
Engineers have designed a soft, lightweight and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand that has the potential to change the lives of...
Taking robots from the lab to the real world
Electrical engineer and robotics specialist Professor Ian Manchester is preparing for a not-too-distant future where robots are as commonplace as...
Australian robotics research stands the test of time
More than a decade after Associate Professor Hanna Kurniawati co-authored a paper on robotic movement, her research into developing smarter...
Robots are doing riveting work maintaining the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Traditionally, maintaining the Sydney Harbour Bridge required workers to enter confined and potentially dangerous spaces. This company’s robots are far...
Engineers built a robot to venture where no human can — into a wombat burrow
Australian researchers have created a robot that can traverse burrows looking for mites that cause disease in wombats.
This company wants to make robots less clumsy
Robots can do a lot of things but, compared to a human, they are remarkably clumsy. This company wants to...
