Meet our Robots
The Centre is fortunate to have access to a range of robotic platforms that are helping to advance cutting-edge research.
Off-the-shelf Robots
- Social robots: SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot.
- Robotic arms: Franka-Emika Panda; Kinova Mico; Universal Robots UR5 and UR10; Rethink Baxter.
- Robotic hand: qr Robotics Softhand.
- Endoscopic surgery robot: Applied Dexterity Raven.
- Mobile robotic platforms: Adept Patrolbot and Omron LD-60.
- Robotic boat: Marine Advanced Robotics WAM-V.
- UAVs employed to enable research in spatial ecology, GPS denied environments, air quality sampling, path planning and navigation
Centre-developed Robots
- Harvey the robotic harvester.
- Autonomous underwater robots, RangerBot and its predecessor, COTSbot.
- A continuum robot for arthroscopy, SnakeBot.
- A fleet of five mini self-driving cars.
- A logistic robot, Cartman (now disassembled), which won the 2017 global pick-and-place Amazon Robotics Challenge in Japan.
- Penguin Pi (small mobile robot for undergraduate teaching).