POSTED: 03 Dec, 2025

The 27th Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA) was held at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia from 1-3rd December, bringing together leading researchers and industry innovators. The Australian Cobotics Centre proudly contributed five accepted papers, highlighting advances in collaborative robotics, humanoid systems, and AI-driven decision-making:

• Solomonoff-Inspired Hypothesis Ranking with LLMs for Prediction Under Uncertainty
  Authors: Josh Barber, Rourke Young, Cameron Coombe, Will Browne (QUT)
• User Preference for Handle Force Transformation for Quadruped Guide Robot
  Authors: Luke Bouttell, Marc Carmichael, Sarath Kodagoda (UTS)
• Robots Watching Robots – Pose Estimation Applied to Humanoid Robots
  Authors: James Matthew Young, Jonathan Roberts (QUT)
• Big Robots, Small Tasks – Task Scale Reduction Using a Simple Pantograph Mechanism
  Authors: Sean Burgess, Braydon Pithie, Jonathan Roberts (QUT)
• Training Humanoid Robots to Walk in Lunar Gravity Using Reinforcement Learning
  Authors: Benjamin Klein, Jonathan Roberts (QUT)

The conference concluded with a highlight for the Centre: Professor Will Browne was announced as the new President of the Australian Robotics and Automation (ARAA) Association.