Associate Investigator Dana Kulić was named on the global list of 30 women in robotics you need to know about, collated by RoboHub.

Associate Investigator Jason Ford was named 2019 Australian Academic of the Year, at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. He was also promoted to full Professor at QUT.

Chief Investigator Michael Milford was awarded the 2019 Batterham Medal for Engineering Excellence from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He also received the 2019 Innovation Grand Prize, from the International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired computing. Michael was named as the top robotics researcher in Australia in a special issue of The Australian Research Magazine in September. This was evidenced by the citation impact of his journal papers over the past five years.

Centre Director Peter Corke became a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences.

Chief Investigator Gustavo Carneiro was promoted to full professor at the University of Adelaide.

Chief Investigator Hongdong Li was promoted to full professor at Australian National University.

Chief Investigator Stephen Gould was promoted to full professor at the Australian National University.

Associate Investigator Liang Zheng was awarded a DECRA Fellowship commencing in 2020 for the project “Data synthesis to quantitatively understand and improve vision systems.”

Chief Investigator Gustavo Carneiro was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for the project “Adapting deep learning for real-world medical image datasets.”

Chief Investigator Elizabeth Croft became a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia.

Associate Investigator Felipe Gonzalez was awarded the AI for Earth Grant and Award from Google. He received funding from Microsoft as part of its US$50 million AI for Earth program. The funding will allow the quick processing of data of the Great Barrier reef using cloud computing services, saving weeks or even months in data crunching time.

Chief Investigators Tat-Jun Chin and Anton van den Hengel are investigators in the SmartSat CRC which secured $55 million in CRC program funding over 7 years. It will foster the creation of next generation space-technologies and make Australia more competitive in the global space economy by supporting the next wave of growth in critical industries including agriculture, transport, logistics, communications and mining, generating new high-tech jobs and strengthening national defence and security.

Chief Investigators Tat-Jun Chin and Anton van den Hengel are investigators in the SmartSat CRC which secured $55 million in CRC program funding over 7 years. It will foster the creation of next generation space-technologies and make Australia more competitive in the global space economy by supporting the next wave of growth in critical industries including agriculture, transport, logistics, communications and mining, generating new high-tech jobs and strengthening national defence and security.

Associate Investigator Chris Lehnert is part of the Future Food Systems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) which was announced in April 2019 and will receive $35 million in funding over 10 years from the Federal Government, along with almost $150 million in support from the research centre’s educational and commercial participants. He will be working on developing robotics and smart technology for vertical and indoor protected cropping.

Associate Investigator Jochen Trumpf was appointed as Director of the Software Innovation Institute at the Australian National University

Chief Investigator Niko Sunderhauf was appointed to the editorial board of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), the premier robotics journal and was appointed as one of two co-chairs of the Technical Committee for Computer and Robot Vision of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Chief Investigator Feras Dayoub became a Senior Lecturer at QUT.

Associate Investigator Qi Wu won the Australian Academy of Science J. G. Russell Award, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide.