Snakebot to revolutionise keyhole surgery
A world-first, Snakebot is a prototype semi-autonomous surgical system that has the potential to revolutionise keyhole surgery in ways not imagined before. Find out more
Carlie – our newest Centre Robot
Carlie is a scaled down version of a full-size autonomous car, with a range of camera and sensors and on-board computer capability. Four of these mobile robotic platforms were created, one for each of the Centre node, and are used for research, engagement and outreach purposes. Find out more about Carlie.
RoboCup@Home challenge taking out the garbage!
In 2019 the Centre entered a team in the RoboCup@Home Challenge with a robot named Rocky who can take out the garbage!
RoboCup@Home is a mobile manipulation and human robot interaction challenge that aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future domestic applications.
Rocky was built from a mish-mash of robots and technology from a Centre lab and was placed sixth in our first attempt at the challenge which was a great result.
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Centre Director receives Australian Academy of Science Award top honour
Our Centre Director, Professor Peter Corke’s visionary contribution to advancing the capabilities of robots – able to ‘see’ and ‘understand’ like humans – earnt him one of Australia’s top honours as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Find out more
Robobot – robo ‘reef protector’ wins coveted Good Design Award
In 2019 Rangerbot took out three awards, including the coveted Good Design Award for Sustainability.
Rangerbot is the world’s first vision-based underwater robotic system designed specifically for coral and reef environments. It uses cutting edge vision-based technologies to monitor a wide range of issues facing coral reefs as well as identifying and destroying the crown-of-thorns starfish.
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Robotic Vision Summer School
In 2019 the Centre held the fifth annual Robotic Vision Summer School at Australian National University’s Kioloa Campus. The Summer School hosted 50 PhD and graduate students from around the world, all of whom had the opportunity to experiment with computer vision algorithms on actual robotic hardware. They also had the chance to learn from some of the world’s leading researchers in robotics and computer vision. Find out more.
World-first Robotic Vision Challenge
Celebrated LYRO Robotics, the fifth start-up to emerge from the Centre secured its first international investment partnership with Japan’s Toyo Kanetsu. Dr Jurgen ‘Juxi’ Leitner and his team developed world-leading robotic picking and packing technology that is attracting plenty of positive support. Find out more.
Centre start-up LYRO Robotics secures funding
Celebrated LYRO Robotics, the fifth start-up to emerge from the Centre secured its first international investment partnership with Japan’s Toyo Kanetsu. Dr Jurgen ‘Juxi’ Leitner and his team developed world-leading robotic picking and packing technology that is attracting plenty of positive support. Find out more.
World first active perception discovery
In a world first, Centre PhD Researcher Doug Morrison was able to use active perception to enable real-time robotic grasping and manoeuvring. The result was a faster and smarter system that operates more like a human, where the robot can change its mind in the middle of a task according to what is in its view. Find out more about this ground-breaking discovery.
