Unique Robots Designed and Built
Larvalbot
Larvalbot is an underwater robot platform that may greatly accelerate efforts to re-seed old corals with healthy new polyps.
COTSbot
COTSbot is a robot designed to seek out and control the Great Barrier Reef’s crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), which are responsible for an estimated 40% of the reef’s total decline in coral cover.
RangerBot
RangerBot significantly extends the capabilities of its predecessor, the COTSbot, and exploits real-time on-board vision for navigation, obstacle detection, survey and management tasks.
Agbot II
Agbot II is equipped with cameras, sensors and software and is designed to work in autonomous groups to navigate, detect and classify weeds and manage them either chemically or mechanically as well as apply fertilizer for site specific crop management.
Harvey
Harvey, the robotic capsicum harvester, is a horticultural robot prototype designed to identify and harvest capsicums.
Bruce
Bruce is an autonomous and versatile robo-boat with a range of emergency response and environmental management applications.
Carlie
Carlie is a scaled down version of a full-size autonomous car, with a range of camera sensors and significant on-board computer capability.
Cartman
Cartman is a Cartesian robot that won the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. It moves along three axes at right angles to each other, like a gantry crane, and features a rotating gripper that allows it to pick up items using either suction or a simple two-finger grip.
Penguin Pi
A small mobile robot, the Penguin Pi couples a proven mobility platform with a Rasberry Pi as well as software resources.
Rocky
Rocky is a service and assistive robot that combines mobility with an arm, and was built to support research into a range of domestic tasks.
Franky
Franky is a more capable version of Rocky, that combines a high-performance mobile base with a 7-axis robot arm capable of compliant motion.
Snakebot
Snakebot has seen surgeons and roboticists join forces to explore how autonomous and semi-autonomous robots could be used in surgery, using keyhole surgery in the knee as a way to explore the technology.
Snakeraven
Snakeraven is a robot that attaches to the Raven II surgical robotic platform. A computer optimized the design parameters of SnakeRaven in terms of how well it reaches and orients about the targets in a patient scan.