Meet the Aussie robot squad heading underground in DARPA challenge
A squad of five Australian robots is heading to the US next week to compete in an underground mapping and rescue challenge set by DARPA. Computerworld meets them.
A squad of five Australian robots is heading to the US next week to compete in an underground mapping and rescue challenge set by DARPA. Computerworld meets them.
They pause, bring their head up, and swing a leg back to shoot. They extend a foot, miss the ball completely and fall with a thud on the turf.
Researchers from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision are calling for large-scale, major trials of social robots in health and wellbeing settings, after an analysis of current experiments found them to be limited and few in number.
Close your eyes and grab an object close to you and it isn’t difficult to figure out what it is. The same can’t be said for robots, which still struggle with manipulating physical objects.
Surgery carried out with the help of robots is already well established, with machines like the Da Vinci Surgical System being used at a number of hospitals in Australia.
A team of researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 and their robots are heading to an abandoned gold mine in the Colorado mountains this weekend, to take part in an exercise run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Queensland Health is continuing its experimentation with robot assistants, rolling out additional TESA bots to hospitals across the state next month.
Dark and disorientating, prone to rockfalls and flooding, and often filled with toxic gases: caves are not a safe place for humans. So why not send robots instead?
Rio Tinto’s fully autonomous train has completed its first delivery of iron ore between the miner’s Mount Tom Price mine and the port of Cape Lambert, the organisation announced today.
Researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have this week returned from a 10 day mission on the Research Vessel Cape Ferguson during which they trialed the use of underwater and aerial drones to run automated surveys of the Great Barrier Reef.
While Australia’s flesh and blood soccer team retains a slim hope of reaching the final of the FIFA World Cup in Russia, that dream is sadly over for their robotic counterparts that competed in Montreal this week.
Robots are hard at work all over Australia. They are pulling tonnes of iron ore hundreds of kilometres across the Pilbara. They are swimming around the Great Barrier Reef killing environment damaging starfish.
Domino’s Pizza has appointed a new group chief information officer, Suncorp insurance business tech chief Terry Powell.
The Sixth Wave Alliance (SWA) – its name inspired by the title of a book authored by former CSIRO engineer James Moody – will “put Australia on the map as the global leader in robotics” it says.
Foreign minister Julie Bishop has delivered a blow to a campaign against the weaponisation of artificial intelligence, by saying the government considers it “premature to support” any ban.