Publications

Articulating Human-World Relations from Co-Designing a Collaborative Robotic System

In contrast to traditional industrial robots, collaborative robots are developed with the intention of allowing for close-proximity physical interacti...

Enhancing Embodied Object Detection with Spatial Feature Memory

Deep-learning and large scale language-image training have produced image object detectors that generalise well to diverse environments and semantic c...

A computational design framework for robust dataset creation for robotic fabrication and design automation

Generative AI models have gained considerable attention across various fields, demonstrating remarkable success in generating text and image data. Thi...

When socio-technical imaginaries meet the reality of adoption: Cobots in manufacturing

By the time a new technology is adopted, it has been significantly influenced by the socio-technical imaginaries that inspired its development. For Co...

A Lightweight Large Vision-language Model for Multimodal Medical Images

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) enhances clinical decision-making by enabling systems to interpret medical images and answer clinical queries....

Knowledge Work in High Value Manufacturing: Preparing Graduates in an Innovative Industry-Based Learning Factory

The idea of a knowledge economy is a contested and politically complex concept. Its rise coincided with the evolution of new forms of capital apart fr...

The Design of Extended Reality-enabled Tangible Interaction to Enhance the Interaction with Collaborative Robots

Collaborative robots (cobots) are increasingly employed in manufacturing to enhance productivity and efficiency, particularly by performing repetitive...

What Would Jim Henson Do? Roleplaying Human-Robot Collaborations Through Puppeteering

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has many potential benefits to workers in various sectors but also inherently changes work practices, processes, and w...

Human-Robot Experience (HRX) Theatre – An Interdisciplinary Methodology For Reimagining Human-Robot Relationships Through Movement

How can we connect with robots without mimicking human traits? Can we build meaningful relationships with nonhuman-like bodies? What if sociality emer...

Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI)

The 8th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) seeks to bring together researchers from...

Redrawing Boundaries: Systemic Impacts of Rehabilitation Robots in Clinical Care Settings

How does the implementation of robotic systems impact patient care, therapist roles, and clinical workflows in rehabilitation care? This study present...

Enabling Safe, Active and Interactive Human-Robot Collaboration via Smooth Distance Fields

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) scenarios demand computationally efficient frameworks that enable natural and safe actions and interactions in shared ...

Investigating Human Factors in Mako-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Surgeries

This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the human factors underpinning successful Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in Mako-assisted Total Kn...

To Safety and Beyond! A Scoping Review of Human Factors Enriching the Design of Human-Robot Collaboration

This scoping review explores human factors that enrich the design of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) beyond the traditional focus on ergonomics and sa...

Design Principles for Safe Human Robot Collaboration

With the development of collaborative robots (cobots), a paradigm shift in human-robot collaboration (HRC) is emerging in the workplace. When introduc...

The State of AI in Australian Human Resources

Alongside work of all forms, the human resources profession is undergoing a transformation fuelled by rapid developments in artificial intelligence (A...

Designing Effective AR Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review and Practical Guidelines for Robot Pick-and-Place Tasks

Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces for industrial robotics could transform human-robot interaction (HRI), particularly in teaching robots to perform pi...

Collaborative Robots for Empowering People: Key Insights from an OzCHI Workshop

There is an increased interest towards robotic platforms for close and direct collaboration with people, given the benefits of utilising the complimen...

The nexus between green HRM and environmental performance for sustainable business excellence: the role of employees’ environmental passion and pro-environmental behavior

Leveraging intellectual capital as a component of an extant sustainable business excellence model and using the theoretical lens of Ability-Motivation...

Constrained Bootstrapped Learning for Few-Shot Robot Skill Adaptation

In this paper, we propose a robot skill-learning method that facilitates fast adaption to new tasks online. Our method is based on a hybrid learning f...

Coordinated Multi-arm 3D Printing using Reeb Decomposition

Robotic additive manufacturing has the potential to replace traditional production techniques with more flexible, capable and efficient methods. Howev...

Human–robot interactions and experiences of staff and service robots in aged care

The rise of robotics in aged care is transforming how older adults are cared for, addressing staff shortages and workload. Daily interactions with sta...

SWISH – Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub

SWISH is a collaborative performance between humans and an industrial robot arm. The collaborative performance work addresses an under researched ques...

Advanced manufacturing: exploring the human element of the journey

In 2017, Jobs Queensland worked in consultation with the manufacturing industry to develop a skills, training and workforce development strategy wit...

Improving the strength of Fused Filament Fabrication parts by non-planar alignment of material extrusion with stress vectors

Current applications of Fused Filament Fabrication in additive manufacturing tend to produce heavily anisotropic parts. This is largely due to the dis...

Designing for People in Human Robot Collaboration

This special issue explores the design-led and human-centred principles driving advancements in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC), emphasising the need ...

Design Considerations for AR-Enabled Human-Robot Collaboration in Fabrication-Centric Architectural Design Process: A Co-design Approach.

The emergence of collaborative robotics presents an opportunity for architectural designers to safely engage in design and fabrication through human-r...

To Safety and Beyond! A Scoping Review of Human Factors Enriching the Design of Human-Robot Collaboration

This scoping review explores human factors that enrich the design of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) beyond the traditional focus on ergonomics and sa...

Characterising CSCW Research on Human-Robot Collaboration

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an increasingly prominent topic in CSCW. From telepresence systems through field robots for extreme missions to soc...

Out of Place Robot in the Wild: Envisioning Urban Robot Contextual Adaptability Challenges Through a Design Probe

The increasing deployment of robots in urban spaces calls for design strategies to ensure their adaptation and to mitigate potential disruptions to co...

A matrix-based approach to step-wise assess the safety of collaborative robots in manufacturing

Collaborative robots (cobots) allow for flexible manufacturing, supporting more customised product designs. Although safety is key for socio-technical...

Interactive Distance Field Mapping and Planning to Enable Human-Robot Collaboration

Human-robot collaborative applications require scene representations that are kept up-to-date and facilitate safe motions in dynamic scenes. In this l...

Bridging Ethnography and Design in HRI: Making Space for Diverging Perspectives

Ethnography and design go hand in hand in human-centered research. However, while design is receiving increasing interest within the Human-Robot Inter...

What Affects Human Decision Making in Human–Robot Collaboration?: A Scoping Review

The advent of Industry 4.0 has heralded advancements in Human–robot Collaboration (HRC), necessitating a deeper understanding of the factors influen...

Force Controlled Robotic Surface Finishing with Variable Tool Centre Point (TCP)

Written by Barış Balcı Balci, PhD researcher from QUT funded through the IMCRC and the Australian Cobotics Centre. IEEE Robotics and Automation S...

Optimal Workpiece Placement Based on Robot Reach, Manipulability and Joint Torques

Workpiece placement with respect to an industrial robot plays an important role in robotic manufacturing due to its influence on the configuration-dep...

When is a robot a cobot? Moving beyond manufacturing and arm-based cobot manipulators

Collaborative robots (“cobots”) have attracted growing attention in academia and industry over the last years. Due to in-built safety feat...

Mapping Socio-Technical Dependencies to Enable the Successful Adoption of Collaborative Robots in Industry

Preliminary Analysis of a Redundancy Resolution Method for Mobile Manipulators used in Physical Human Robot Interaction

Adding mobility to a manipulator significantly increases its reachable workspace, allowing it to perform a wider variety of tasks. However, this advan...

It’s Coming Home Down Under – The Potential of Digital Work to Overcome Australia’s Challenges in Reshoring Manufacturing

Over the past decades, the world has seen a continuous increase of globalisation and interconnectedness – in part supported by advances in digital c...

Cobots and decent work

The use of cobots (collaborative robots) is expanding in industrial settings. Differing from traditional robots by requiring close human proximity and...

Illustrating Robot Movements

In efforts to disseminate research on human-robot interaction, many researchers use illustrations in the form of sketches, photographs, and 3D models ...

Guidelines for Safe Collaborative Robot Design and Implementation

This document provides an overview of the comprehensive guidelines. It describes relevant definitions of working with collaborative robots, summarises...

Advancing Manufacturing Case Studies

To inform a review of progress against the priority action areas (PAAs) outlined in Advancing Manufacturing Skills: A Skills, Training and Workforce D...

Towards human–robot collaboration in construction: current cobot trends and forecasts

Collaborative robots, or cobots, provide opportunities for their use in a range of complex scenarios in different industries, including construction. ...

Management capabilities for the transition to Industry 4.0: an advanced manufacturing SME case study

Management capabilities for the transition to Industry 4.0: an advanced manufacturing SME case study. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management...

A Novel Passive Grasping Robot Control Framework Towards Vision-Based Industrial Steel Bar Conveyor Removal

In the steel bar manufacturing industry bars of shorter length are occasionally produced that do not match the required batch length. Currently human ...

A Life-Cycle Framework to Manage Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Open Organisations

Successful research and development requires interdisciplinary collaboration, often across organisational boundaries and for extended timeframes, such...

“Cobots” and manufacturing: A bibliometric study

This article provides a bibliometric overview of scholarly work published in collaborative robotics, often known as “Cobots” in recent decades. Th...

Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration: Bringing Together and Synthesising Perspectives Workshop

The workshop brought together academic researchers and industry practitioners representing multiple disciplines of Human-Computer Interaction, Robotic...

Special issue on human robot collaboration – Construction Robotics

The fourth industrial revolution is defined by advancing robotics, increasing automation in manufacturing, ubiquitous computing, internet of things, a...

Hybrid Digital Crafts With Collaborative Robotics

Bespoke manufacturers that fabricate for architecture and design rely on skill artisans such as patternmakers to remain profitable. Collaborative robo...

Employing AR/MR Mockups to Imagine Future Custom Manufacturing Practices

Versatile augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) technologies align with custom manufacturers’ resource constraints and support their requirement...

Beyond Pure Technology – The Cognitive and Organisational Impacts of Cobots

Work environments are radically changing with the adoption of new technologies. As the trend for automation grows collaborative robots or “cobots”...

Cobots and Decent Work

The use of cobots (collaborative robots) is expanding in industrial settings. Differing from traditional robots by requiring close human proximity and...