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16 Dec 2024

2024 Industry Symposium and Cobot mini-Expo

The Australian Cobotics Centre successfully hosted its first Industry Symposium and Mini-Expo on Thursday, 5th December 2024, at the QUT Kelvin Grove ...

16 Dec 2024

ARTICLE: How Vocational Education and Training (VET) looks to meet the skills needs of the advanced Manufacturing Sector

As manufacturing moves to more advanced methods of production that utilises technologies such as cobots, vocational education and training (VET) provi...

16 Dec 2024

2024 Centre Awards

At the annual ACC Symposium, an awards evening was held with nominations put forward by Centre members in the lead up to the event. Our annual awards ...

06 Dec 2024

Celebrating Research Excellence: Australian Cobotics Centre’s Research Showcase 2024

On 5th December 2024, the Australian Cobotics Centre proudly hosted its annual Research Showcase, celebrating the achievements of its researchers over...

04 Dec 2024

ARTICLE: Beyond the Factory Floor: Cobots as the Ultimate Growth Hack for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Automation has long been the domain of large enterprises with deep pockets and extensive resources. However, the landscape is undergoing a transformat...

25 Nov 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Bochao Xu

Bochao Xu is an Associate PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney, and he is part of the Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems...

04 Nov 2024

ARTICLE: Industry 5.0 and Cobot Adoption

TL;DR Industry 5.0 highlights environmental sustainability, human centricity, and resilience, pushing corporate responsibility to the social and ...

28 Oct 2024

ARTICLE: Proposed guardrails for the safe and responsible use of AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is appearing in many aspects of our life and work, and advancements are rapid and continuous. For most of us, it has been...

30 Sep 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Phuong Tran

Phuong Tran is a PhD researcher based at the Queensland University of Technology and her project is part of the Collaborative Robots and Humans' Work ...

16 Sep 2024

ARTICLE: From Lab to Market (Part II): Bridging the Gap – Solutions for Effective Industry-Academic Collaboration

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the synergy between academic research and industrial innovation has never been more critical. Yet...

02 Sep 2024

ARTICLE: Accepted Papers for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Australian Cobotics Centre researchers have two papers accepted for publication at the upcoming IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot...

05 Aug 2024

ARTICLE: Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration: The Role of Extended Reality

In advanced industries, the integration of Extended Reality (XR) technologies into Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) presents unprecedented opportunitie...

29 Jul 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Louis Fernandez

Louis Fernandez is a PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney and his project is part of the Multi-modal Human Robot Collaboration,...

26 Jul 2024

ARTICLE: From Lab to Market (Part I): Navigating the Obstacles in Academic-Industry Collaborations

As a researcher deeply invested in advancing knowledge and innovation, I've consistently encountered a significant challenge: securing meaningful part...

08 Jul 2024

ARTICLE: Addressing gender pay disparities in engineering

Manufacturing is one of the top 3 engineering-heavy sectors in Australia, employing more than 46,000 qualified engineers. The manufacturing sector cur...

17 Jun 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jasper Vermeulen

Jasper Vermeulen is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Sys...

17 Jun 2024

ARTICLE: Enhancing Hydraulic Maintenance Operations with Multi-modal Feedback

Hydraulic systems are integral to industrial applications that require significant force, such as mining and manufacturing. Despite their power and ef...

11 Jun 2024

Welcoming a new Industry Partner – Workr Labs

We're delighted to welcome Workr Labs Inc. as our newest industry partner to the Australian Cobotics Centre! Led by a talented team including Ken Mack...

04 Jun 2024

ARTICLE: Industry 4.0 Awareness and Experience Workshop

These workshops were organised and run by Swinburne University of Technology's Factory of the Future and were funded through the Victorian Government'...

13 May 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Yuan Liu

Yuan Liu is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Systems at...

08 May 2024

Cook Medical Placement

Our University of Technology Sydney PhD researcher, Louis Fernandez, has just completed a one-month placement with our industry partner, Cook Medic...

30 Apr 2024

ARTICLE: Enhancing Collaboration Between Humans and Robots: The Critical Role of Human Factors Research

This article is written by Jasper Vermeulen, PhD researcher at the Australian Cobotics Centre.   Integrating collaborative robots (cobots) in...

29 Apr 2024

ARTICLE: Robotic Blended Sonification: Consequential Robot Sound as Creative Material for Human-Robot Interaction

This article is written by Stine S. Johansen, Jared Donovan, Markus Rittenbruch (Human-Robot-Interaction Program) at Australian Cobotics Centre, and Y...

15 Apr 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, James Dwyer

James Dwyer is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Human-Robot-Interaction Program at the Aus...

15 Apr 2024

Welcome to our new Chief Investigator

We are pleased to welcome a new Chief Investigator from University of Technology Sydney, Dr Victor Hernandez Moreno. Victor is a former Associate Ph...

25 Mar 2024

CONGRATULATIONS James – Confirmation of Candidature

We extend our congratulations to James Dwyer, our PhD researcher, for successfully completing his confirmation seminar on March 20th. James's thes...

19 Mar 2024

Welcoming a new Industry Partner – Tafe Queensland

We are pleased to announce that TAFE Queensland has joined the Centre as an Industry Partner! TAFE Queensland offers our Centre valuable insight ...

18 Mar 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Akash Brinly Hettiarachchi

Akash Hettiarachchi is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Human-Robot Workforce Program at t...

11 Mar 2024

CONGRATULATIONS Akash – Confirmation of Candidature

Massive congratulations to our PhD researcher, Akash Brinly Hettiarachchi who completed his confirmation seminar last week on Wednesday, 6 March! ...

04 Mar 2024

New PhD Researcher, Zongyuan Zhang

We are pleased to welcome Zongyuan Zhang, our newest team member. Zongyuan is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), supervi...

04 Mar 2024

ARTICLE: Reflections from the 2023 OZCHI workshop on Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration

This article is written by Stine Johansen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Human-Robot-Interaction Program) at Australian Cobotics Centre.   At...

01 Mar 2024

Two papers accepted for ISEA 2024

Our researchers have two papers accepted to the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2024) which will be held in Meanjin (Brisbane) from 21...

29 Feb 2024

Goodbye & Thank You

Farewell to Our THWS Visiting Researchers! It's time to say goodbye to our three visiting researchers from the Technical University of Applied ...

27 Feb 2024

PhD Project Introductions

Collaboration and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Centre. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introduc...

20 Feb 2024

ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration in Healthcare: Challenges and Prospects

This article is written by Amir Asadi, PhD researcher at the Australian National University (ANU) and a visiting researcher at Australian Cobotics Cen...

18 Feb 2024

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jacqueline Greentree

Jacqueline Greentree is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and her project is part of the Human-Robot Workforce Program at ...

01 Feb 2024

Project Wrap-up: Shorts project Phase 2

Our research team from UTS and QUT has wrapped up phase 2 of the “Shorts” project with Infrabuild which involved demonstrating steel bar removal u...

11 Jan 2024

Swinburne PhD Researchers win Peoples Choice award for ‘WeedoMate’

PhD researchers from Swinburne, Jagannatha Pyaraka and Kartik Choudhary, and their supervisor, A/Prof Mats Isaksson have invented WeedoMate, a revol...

15 Dec 2023

Goodbye & Thank You

We are sad to farewell two of our researchers this month: * Dr Mickey Clemon from University of Technology Sydney and co-lead of the Quality As...

11 Dec 2023

2023 Symposium – PhD researcher posters

At our annual symposium each of students were asked to create a research poster. For most of our students, this was the first research poster they h...

11 Dec 2023

2023 Symposium: PhD Poster Winners

At our annual symposium each of students were asked to create a research poster. For most of our students, this was the first research poster they hav...

08 Dec 2023

CONGRATULATIONS Barış Balcı – Final Seminar

Massive congratulations to our PhD researcher, Barış Balcı who completed his final seminar today! His thesis is entitled: Methods for Robo...

07 Dec 2023

Welcome to our new Associate PhD Researchers

We'd like to officially welcome three new Associate PhD Researchers to the Australian Cobotics Centre team. Bochao Xu (UTS), Designing Socio Tech...

06 Dec 2023

ACRA 2023

Our Biomimic Cobots research program have had a great couple of days at the 2023 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation) cohosted by U...

04 Dec 2023

Welcome to our new CI’s

We'd like to officially welcome two new Chief Investigators from UTS to the Centre and to our Quality Assurance and Compliance research program. * ...

01 Dec 2023

OzCHI Workshop 2023

As part of 2023 OzCHI conference held in New Zealand from 1-6th December, our researchers along with those from CSIRO, conducted a workshop on "Empow...

30 Nov 2023

Congratulations to our PhD Researchers

Congratulations to our PhD Researchers who passed their confirmation of candidature over the past month! Jacqueline Greentree from QUT (Queensl...

29 Nov 2023

Successful Annual Symposium Wraps Up at University of Technology Sydney

The Australian Cobotics Centre has successfully wrapped up its annual symposium after three days of engaging activities at the University of Technolog...

28 Nov 2023

Awards Evening – ACC Annual Symposium 2023

At the annual ACC Symposium, an awards evening was held with nominations put forward by Centre members in the lead up to the event. Our annual awards...

27 Nov 2023

Connect & Share event

Last night we held the second PhD Connect and Share event at University of Technology Sydney. We were joined by other Sydney-based ARC funded Trai...

26 Nov 2023

TAFE Qld Emerging Technology event

Last week we went along to the TAFE Queensland Engineering and Emerging Technology Industry night at Eagle Farm. Centre Director, Jonathan R...

23 Nov 2023

CONGRATULATIONS Victor Hernandez Moreno – Final Seminar

Congratulations to Victor Hernandez Moreno from the UTS Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, and Associate PhD Researcher from the Australian Coboti...

14 Nov 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Anushani Bibile

Anushani Bibile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, based at Swinburne University of Technology. Her project is part of the Quality Assurance and Compl...

08 Nov 2023

Giving cobots the human touch through biomimicry

This is article written by Robyn Barden from UTS and originally published via the UTS website Giving cobots the human touch through biomimicry | U...

02 Nov 2023

Robotic Guide Dog project

Super exciting that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has featured the Robotic Guide Dog project by QUT (Queensland University of Techn...

30 Oct 2023

ARTICLE: Navigating Augmented Reality: User Interface and UX in Cobotics

Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Alan Burden from the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Systems research program in the Centre.   The ...

27 Oct 2023

Congratulations Dr Stine Johansen on her ECR Grant

Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr Stine Johansen on her ECR Grant from the QUT Centre for Robotics! QUT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine Jo...

23 Oct 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Nadimul Haque

Nadimul Haque is a PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots Program at the Australia...

23 Oct 2023

ARTICLE: How to ensure quality assurance when integrating a cobot

Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Anushani Bibile and Research Program Co-Lead, Dr. Michelle Dunn, both from SUT A collaborative robot (...

16 Oct 2023

New PhD Researcher, Justin Botha

Let's introduce Justin Botha, our newest team member. Justin is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), actively involved in t...

10 Oct 2023

PhD Project Introductions

Collaboration and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Centre. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introduc...

03 Oct 2023

ARTICLE: Cobots in manufacturing: Good for skill shortages and much more.

Written by Research Program Co-Lead Professor Greg Hearn and PhD Candidate Nisar Ahmed Channa both from the Human Robot Workforce research program in ...

19 Sep 2023

6 Reasons Why We Need a Prototyping Toolkit for Designing Human-Robot Collaboration

Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine S Johansen and PhD Researcher, James Dwyer In this short article, we will share 6 benefits of ha...

12 Sep 2023

ARTICLE: Can we Unlock the Potential of Collaborative Robots?

Written by Dr Marc Carmichael and Louis Fernandez from the Australian Cobotics Centre. Collaborative robots, or cobots for short, have gained signi...

28 Aug 2023

PhD Project Introductions

Cooperation and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Center. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introducti...

28 Aug 2023

New PhD Researcher, Eleonora Zodo

Let's introduce Eleonora Zodo, our newest team member. Eleonora is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), actively involved ...

21 Aug 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jagannatha Pyaraka

Jagannatha Pyaraka is a PhD researcher based at Swinburne and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots Program at the Australian Cobotics Centre. ...

08 Aug 2023

ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration through Augmented Reality

Written by Dr Alan Burden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Australian Cobotics Centre. In previous articles, we delved into socio-technical s...

01 Aug 2023

TAFE Queensland Explores QUT Centre for Robotics’ Industry Collaborations

Yesterday, TAFE Queensland's representatives visited the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR) at the Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point camp...

01 Aug 2023

Congratulations to our PhD researcher, Jagannatha Pyaraka

Congratulations to our PhD researcher from Swinburne University of Technology, Jagannatha Charjee Pyaraka who passed his confirmation of candidature ...

31 Jul 2023

Centre Director Prof Jonathan Roberts at QUT Centre for Justice’s Disability & Inclusion Symposium

Last week, Centre Director Prof Jonathan Roberts was part of the discusison panel at QUT Centre for Justice's Disability & Inclusion symposium....

31 Jul 2023

Dr. Matthias Guertler Presents New Research on Expanding the Scope of Cobots at ICED23

Research Program co-lead, Dr Matthias Guertler, shared valuable insights at #ICED23 through his presentation on the topic "When is a robot a cobot...

27 Jul 2023

Two joint CSIRO & Australian Cobotics Centre scholarships now available!

We are currently recruiting for two PhD Scholarships funded by CSIRO's Data61's Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) Future Science Platform. Both s...

25 Jul 2023

Evidence Given as part of the ‘Developing Australian Manufacturing’ Inquiry.

The Australian Cobotics Centre just gave evidence to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources as part of t...

24 Jul 2023

‘Developing Advanced Manufacturing in Australia’ Committee visit to ARM Hub

Members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources visited ARM Hub on 24th July as part of their visit to B...

20 Jul 2023

Centre-wide mid-year meeting

On 18th July, we held our mid-year meeting. This year each university hosted an in-person event and we joined together via zoom. It was fantastic t...

17 Jul 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Munia Ahamed

The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Munia Ahamed is a ...

11 Jul 2023

Great interview with our Chief Investigator, Dr Sean Gallagher!

Dr Sean Gallagher is the director of Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for the New Workforce, Chief Investigator at the Australian Cob...

06 Jul 2023

Encounters with Cobots at Swinburne University of Technology

Fantastic event at Swinburne University of Technology last night! There were over 35 people in attendance at Swinburne's Intelligent Robotics Lab...

29 Jun 2023

Australian Cobotics Centre and UTS Robotics Institute Undergraduates Unveil Inverted Robot Mount for InfraBuild Project

The Australian Cobotics Centre's researchers from the UTS Robotics Institute, in collaboration with a talented group of undergraduates, has made signi...

26 Jun 2023

New PhD Researcher, Jasper Vermeulen

Welcome to Jasper Vermeulen, our newest PhD Researcher working on the Human Factors in Collaborative Robotics project, as part of the Designing Soc...

19 Jun 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Nisar Ahmed Channa

The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Nisar Ahmed Ch...

13 Jun 2023

ARTICLE: 6 Reasons Why We Need a Prototyping Toolkit for Designing Human-Robot Collaboration

In this article, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stine Johansen and PhD Researcher, James Dwyer highlight the pressing need for a #prototyping toolk...

30 May 2023

PhD Project Introductions

Collaboration and information sharing across our research programs and disciplines is vital for our Centre's success. To support this, we ask that all...

25 May 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Alan Burden

The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Alan is a Post...

24 May 2023

ARTICLE: The Human Robot Workforce research program

To implement #collaborativerobotics effectively in #advancedmanufacturing, we must address the both the technological advancements required and the...

22 May 2023

Stryker’s Mako robot in action

Earlier this week PhD Researcher, James Dwyer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alan Burden got to observe a robotic knee surgery performed by Pro...

20 May 2023

Australian Manufacturing Week 2023

[caption id="attachment_2014" align="alignright" width="272"] PhD researcher Jagannatha Pyaraka and research program co-lead, Dr Michelle Dunn[/captio...

19 May 2023

CIRP Design 2023

On Friday, 19 May, our 'Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems' research program Co-lead, Dr Matthias Guertler (from UTS Tech Lab) chaired a sess...

17 May 2023

Australian Research Council visit to ARM Hub

On Wednesday, 17 May, we were very lucky to have Australian Research Council Chief Research Officer, Professor Christina Twomey visit us at ARM Hu...

17 May 2023

Accelerate Manufacturing Conference, Dalby

On Wednesday, 17 May, Centre Director Jonathan Roberts and ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing)'s Samuel Jesuadian were in Dalby for the ...

11 May 2023

Designing Shared Human-Robot Spaces – The Impact that Spatial Design Has on Socio-Technical Systems

Written by Dr Alan Burden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Australian Cobotics Centre. In the era of rapidly advancing technology, socio-tech...

10 May 2023

Field trip to Infrabuild’s Newcastle Rod Mill

Our UTS Robotics Institute researchers (Program Lead, Teresa Vidal Calleja, Postdoc, Fouad (Fred) Sukkar and PhD Researcher, Nadimul Haque) have...

09 May 2023

Australian Manufacturing Week

Michelle Dunn and Jagannatha Charjee Pyaraka represented the Australian Cobotics Centre alongside Weld Australia at the 'Australian Manufacturing We...

08 May 2023

New PhD Researcher, Yuan Liu

Welcome to Yuan Liu, our newest PhD Researcher working on the Augmented and Virtual Reality in Collaborative Robotics project, as part of the Designi...

02 May 2023

New PhD Researcher, Louis Fernandez

Welcome to Louis Fernandez! Louis is a PhD Researcher working on our Multi-modal Human Robot Collaboration project, which is part of the Human Robot I...

24 Apr 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Fred Sukkar

The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Fred (Fouad) S...

23 Apr 2023

Building a Pipeline of Engineers: UTS Connections

Thanks to Research program co-Lead, Matthias Guertler, PhD researchers, Munia Ahamed, and Fikre Hagos and visiting Masters researcher from Nurembe...

13 Apr 2023

Welcoming Australia’s industry policy leaders to ARM Hub

Australian Cobotics Centre partner ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) hosted Federal Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic MP and...

22 Mar 2023

ARTICLE: Guidelines for Safe Collaborative Robot Design and Implementation

Congratulations to Dr Matthias Guertler and team (including Dr. Nathalie Sick, Gavin Paul, Marc Carmichael, Manisha Amin, Rebecca Grace, Sazza...

16 Mar 2023

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction March 13-16, 2023 Stockholm, SE

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine Johansen was at the IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference this week where she presented her paper, Illustrati...

16 Mar 2023

ARTICLE: Try-a-Trade, Gladstone

By Melinda Laundon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Jacqueline Greentree, PhD Researcher, Human-Robot Workforce Program, Australian Cobotics Centre ...

15 Mar 2023

New PhD researchers visit Infrabuild

Great to see our new PhD researchers, Munia Ahamed and Fikre Hagos out at InfraBuild Sydney with Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fouad (Fred) Suk...

15 Mar 2023

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Melinda Laundon

The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Dr Melinda Laundon is...

13 Mar 2023

QUT’s Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES)

The Centre has been lucky enough to have two undergraduate students from QUT, Sabrin Daniel and Melanie Lay, working on projects with us over the last...

13 Mar 2023

Changes to QUT’s Chief Investigators

We'd like to officially welcome our newly appointed Chief Investigator, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira to our Centre. Muge will be replacing Anjali who ...

09 Mar 2023

ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration Challenges and Opportunities in Australia

At the 2022 annual Australian conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, OzCHI, 20 researchers from leading Australian robo...

08 Mar 2023

ARTICLE: Cutting-edge careers

Research Program Lead Dr Penny Williams featured in The Australian today in an article entitled, "The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work",...

08 Mar 2023

The Australian “The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work”, Dr Penny Williams

Research Program Lead Dr Penny Williams featured in The Australian today in an article entitled, "The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work",...

06 Mar 2023

New PhD Researcher, Akash Hettiarachchi

Welcome to Akash Hettiarachchi! Akash is a PhD researcher in the Centre, working with our Human Robot Workforce program based at QUT (Queensland Uni...

02 Mar 2023

ARTICLE: A Very Brief Introduction to Socio-technical Systems: And How They Will Impact Our Future Robot Interactions.

Technology permeates all aspects of modern society, from using social media to communicate with friends to relying on machine automation for mundane t...

23 Feb 2023

New PhD Researcher, James Dwyer

Welcome to our newest PhD Researcher, James Dwyer based at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)! James is joining our Human Robot Interaction ...

22 Feb 2023

Robotic Vision Summer School: An Overview from our PhD Researchers

The Robotics Vision Summer School (RVSS) is an annual event that brings together researchers and students from all over the world to learn about the l...

16 Feb 2023

ICRA 2023 – Accepted Papers from The Australian Cobotics Centre

Australian Cobotics Centre researchers have three papers accepted for publication at the upcoming International Conference on Robotics and Automation ...

13 Feb 2023

New PhD Researcher, Munia Ahamed

Our Quality Assurance and Compliance research program has a new PhD Researcher, Munia Ahamed. Munia is supervised by Lee Clemon and is based at UTS...

09 Feb 2023

2023 Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference

On 8th February, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Melinda Laundon presented on Cobots at the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australi...

09 Feb 2023

Jobs Queensland and Australian Cobotics Centre Report Launch

On Tuesday 7th February, Jobs Queensland and the Australian Cobotics Centre officially launched their joint report, Advancing Manufacturing: Exploring...

01 Feb 2023

New PhD Researcher – Fikre Gebremeskel

Welcome to our newest PhD Researcher, Fikre Gebremeskel based at UTS Tech Lab! Fikre is joining our Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems pro...

15 Dec 2022

Australian Cobotics Centre Launch – Project Demonstrations

The key to success for the Centre is in our collaboration across disciplines and with our industry partners. Our demonstrations showcased this and ...

08 Dec 2022

ACRA 2022 Papers and Award Winners!

Australian Cobotics Centre researchers presented a number of papers and won a number of awards at the recent 2022 ACRA conference. The Centre had t...

07 Dec 2022

‘Cobotic Improvisation’ project performance

The ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) co-hosted a performance event with a difference as part of the official launch of the Australian Cob...

07 Dec 2022

2022 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation

The Australian Cobotics Centre hosted the 2022 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation (ACRA) from 6-8th December. Held at QUT's Gard...

06 Dec 2022

The Australian Cobotics Centre Official Launch

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Richard Johnson, today officially launched the ARC Training Centre for C...

02 Dec 2022

Welcome to our postdoc, Anushani Bibile

Anushani Bibile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Quality Assurance and Compliance research program at the Australian Cobotics Centre. She sta...

30 Nov 2022

Welcome to our new PhD researcher, Nisar Channa

Welcome to Nisar Channa, our latest PhD researcher at QUT working in the Human-Robot Workforce program. He received his Master of Science (Manageme...

29 Nov 2022

‘Human-Computer Interaction’ OzCHI workshop

Australian Cobotics Centre and CSIRO's Data61 researchers ran a workshop at OzCHI on 29th November. The workshop, held at The Australian National Un...

21 Nov 2022

PhD research into process optimisation at B&R Enclosures

Associate PhD researcher, Ruba Al-zqebah from UTS, visited B & R Enclosures last week to conduct some observations as part of her research around ...

21 Nov 2022

Shorts project features in Industry Update

Centre Director, Prof Jonathan Roberts and InfraBuild's Industry 4.0 Lead, Andrew Thomas were recently interviewed by Industry Update about the Shorts...

12 Nov 2022

Centre researchers present at QUT’s Centre for Biomedical Technologies Conference

Some of our Centre's researchers presented at the Centre for Biomedical Technologies 2022 Conference. The presentations focused on the Centre's T...

09 Nov 2022

Innovative Manufacturing CRC Celebrations

The Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) is coming to a close at the end of the year and to celebrate, they held a project showcase to highlight the...

09 Nov 2022

QUT’s Design Robotics Team wins AFR Industry Engagement award

[caption id="attachment_444" align="alignleft" width="150"] Jared Donovan[/caption] Congratulations to QUT's Design Robotics team for winning The A...

02 Nov 2022

Welcome to new PhD Researcher, Nadimul Haque

Welcome to our newest PhD researcher from UTS Robotics Institute, Nadimul Haque. Nadimul is supervised by Teresa Vidal Calleja and leads a research...

09 Oct 2022

Teresa Vidal-Calleja – 2022 Women in Robotics you need to know about

Congratulations to our Research Program co-Lead, Teresa Vidal Calleja who has been named as one of 2022's Women in Robotics You Need to Know About. ...

03 Oct 2022

Welcome to new PhD researcher, Jacqueline Greentree

The ACC has welcomed a new PhD Researcher, Jacqueline Greentree. Jacqueline is based at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and is part of th...

22 Sep 2022

ACC at the Modern Manufacturing Expo

Last week some of our team from UTS Tech Lab (Teresa Vidal Calleja, Marc Carmichael and Matthias Guertler) attended the Modern Manufacturing Exp...

20 Sep 2022

Congratulations to Dr Penny Williams on her ARC DECRA grant

Dr Penny Williams has been awarded an ARC DECRA grant for her project ‘Automated People Management: When algorithms manage employees’. The $...

19 Sep 2022

Highly commended award for Dr Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira

Associate Investigator, Dr Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira was highly commended in the Digital Mover and Shaker Award category at the recent 2022 Women in ...

16 Sep 2022

New PhD scholarship with CSIRO available

We are pleased to announce a new scholarship for the Centre that is funded by and also a part of CSIRO's Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Pla...

12 Sep 2022

Our first year: Industry placements

Continuing our celebration of 1 year in operation, today we are looking at one of the key elements of the Centre – the 12 month industry placement t...

09 Sep 2022

Meer our E.P.I.C. Researchers: Associate Professor Mats Isaksson

Recently we interviewed one of our E.P.I.C. researchers from Swinburne University of Technology, Associate Professor Mats Isaksson, co-Lead of the ‘...

07 Sep 2022

Our first year: Cobotic Welding

Centre Chief Investigator, Prof Will Browne is leading a cobotic welding project with two of his undergraduate students and the Centre's Engineers fro...

07 Sep 2022

Our first year: Shorts Project

Continuing our celebration of 1 year in operation, today we are looking at one of the first projects of the Centre – the Shorts project with InfraBu...

31 Aug 2022

Celebrating our 1st Year of Operation!

Today marks the completion of our first year of operation! Over the past year, we've spent a lot of time understanding the challenges of our indust...

17 Aug 2022

B & R Enclosures Workshop and Staff Survey

On 25th July and 8th August,  researchers from the Centre (Glenda Caldwell, Greg Hearn, Penny Williams, Stine Johansen, Melinda Laundon and Alan Burd...

30 Jun 2022

Weld Australia Magazine – Members survey

In early 2022, the Australian Cobotics Centre conducted a survey of Weld Australia members about their workforce and technology challenges. This feedb...

20 Jun 2022

SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence awarded to Centre’s researchers

Congratulations to our 'Human-Robot Workforce' researchers, co-lead Dr Penny Williams and Chief Investigator Prof Paula McDonald on being awarded the ...

16 Jun 2022

Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) Residency at ARM Hub and Cobotics Centre

We are pleased to announce that the ARM Hub (and Australian Cobotics Centre) will be hosting Dr Steph Hutchison through an Australian Network for A...

15 Jun 2022

Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell

[caption id="attachment_1263" align="alignleft" width="231"] Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell[/caption] The Australian Cobotics Centre has some ...

10 Jun 2022

17th International DESIGN Festival paper published

A Life-Cycle Framework to Manage Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Open Organisation   We are very proud to announce the Centre's first...

05 Jun 2022

Changes to our Swinburne Chief Investigators

We are sad to announce the departure of two of our Program co-Leads from Swinburne University of Technology. Professor XiaoQi Chen is mov...

30 May 2022

Welcome to our first PhD Researchers!

We would like to officially welcome our first PhD students to the Centre. Baris Balci, is based at QUT and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots...

27 May 2022

What has Star Wars influenced over the last 45 years

Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Roberts, spoke with Sirine Demachkie on Weekend Evenings on ABC Radio about the influence of Star Wars. Jonatha...

21 Apr 2022

QUT robotics researchers have a new robotic best friend

The Australian Cobotics Centre's Associate PhD Student, Marisa Bucolo, was recently featured in the Queensland University of Technology News as one of...

14 Apr 2022

Collaborative Robotics: Helping to create a safer workplace and more engaged workforce

Cobotics can help create safer working environments for people. This is particularly important within Australian manufacturing, an industry with one o...

03 Mar 2022

Happy World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development!

Happy World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development! Today we recognise and celebrate the contribution of engineers and the importance their wo...

17 Feb 2022

Dr Sean Gallagher on ABC Radio Melbourne: Presenteeism and Burnout

Chief Investigator Dr Sean Gallagher featured on ABC Radio Melbourne's lunchtime program with Jacinta Parsons on 17th February. He talked about presen...

04 Feb 2022

Current Developments in Medical Robotics seminar from Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute

Join one of the Centre's Chief Investigators, Dr. Mats Isaksson on 15th February to hear him talk about current developments within Medical Robots. ...

22 Dec 2021

Thank you for an E.P.I.C 2021!

​As we approach the end of 2021, we often take stock of the year that has just passed. We look back on the successes, look for opportunities to enha...

08 Dec 2021

Teresa Vidal-Calleja on ‘Let’s Talk Robotics’ podcast

Our Biomimic Cobots program co-lead, the amazing Teresa Vidal Calleja (Associate Professor at UTS Robotics Institute) featured in today's episode of "...

07 Dec 2021

Editorial feature in AU Manufacturing’s ‘Leadership in Factory Automation’ series

The Australian Cobotics Centre features in the latest editorial series of Au Manufacturing!  Au Manufacturing is the news and analysis website...

18 Nov 2021

Let’s talk robotics with Professor Jonathan Roberts

Centre Director, Jonathan Roberts featured in the latest episode of  "Let's talk robotics" by Nicci Rossouw from Expatec. The robotics capability ...

17 Nov 2021

Prestigious Academy of Social Sciences recognises Professor Paula McDonald

The Australian Cobotics Centre congratulates Professor Paula McDonald who has been newly elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Scien...

12 Nov 2021

Human Robot Interaction at the Centre for Biomedical Technologies 2021 conference

Centre Director, Jonathan Roberts  was joined by Human-Robot-Interaction Program co-lead, Jared Donovan and industry partner, Cook Medical's Alex Bud...

11 Oct 2021

Australian Welding Magazine features the Australian Cobotics Centre!

The Australian Cobotics Centre features in the latest edition of Australian Welding Magazine, the Official Journal of Weld Australia!  Weld Au...

13 Sep 2021

“Robots create jobs” – ARM Hub visit to Mackay

Centre Director Jonathan Roberts and Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing  (ARM) Hub CEO Cori Stewart recently visited the Resources Centre of Excell...

07 Sep 2021

We’re hiring Postdoctoral Research Fellows!

We're hiring! We are currently recruiting for postdoctoral Research Fellows (LEVB) to work across each of our five research programs across our three...

31 Aug 2021

The Australian Cobotics Centre is officially in operation!

We are pleased to announce the Australian Cobotics Centre is officially in operation! The Centre is funded for 5 years as part of the Australian R...

16 Aug 2021

Congratulations to our Researchers for recent promotions!

Congratulations to the Australian Cobotics Centre Chief Investigators and Research Program Co-Leads Jared Donovan and Matthias Guertler on their recen...

31 May 2021

Safe Work NSW tender awarded to UTS team

Congratulations to Chief Investigator Matthias Guertler and the team from UTS!  They have been awarded a tender from The NSW Centre for Work Health...

31 May 2021

Swinburne’s “Peak Human Workplace” report launched

In April, the Centre for the New Workforce in Swinburne launched their latest research, Peak Human Workforce report in learning and collaboration in...

31 Jul 2020

Funding announced for ARC Training Centre

A research team lead by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has received $4.9 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for a new t...