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Celebrating the Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing Centre at TAFE Queensland!
On 17th June 2025, our Centre was part of the official opening of the Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre (RAMC) at TAFE Queensland Eagle Farm ...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Sheila Sutjipto
Sheila Sutjipto is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Biomimic Program where her research explores physical human–robot interaction (pHRI). She...
Fireside Chat Series Continues with B&R Enclosures
The Australian Cobotics Centre is thrilled to continue its Fireside Chat series with B&R Enclosures, one of our valued industry partners. These i...
Showcasing Human-Robot Collaboration Research at ICRA 2025
This week, Professor Teresa Vidal Calleja is representing the Australian Cobotics Centre at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Robotics ...
Mentoring the Future: 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Mentoring Program Now Open
We’re thrilled to launch the 2025 Mentoring Program for HDR students and postdoctoral researchers—now bigger and more collaborative than ever! Th...
Shaping the Future of Work: Penny Williams Presents at International Conference in Sweden
Last week, Associate Professor Penny Williams, Program Lead for the Human-Robot Workforce at QUT and the Australian Cobotics Centre, presented at the ...
Celebrating Academic Promotions at UTS Robotics Institute
Congratulations to three of our Centre's Chief Investigators from UTS on their recent promotions! 🔹 Professor Teresa Vidal Calleja – Promote...
More Than Machines: Why Do We Want to Build Robots That Look Like Us?
Written by Dr Alan Burden , QUT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Designing Socio-Technical Robotics System program. A colleague recently questioned why...
Improving Human-Robot Collaboration in Surgery: Jasper Vermeulen Presents at Ergonomics Conference in the UK
PhD researcher Jasper Vermeulen from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is presenting today at the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human ...
Newest industry partner – Vaulta
We're excited to welcome Vaulta as the newest industry partner of the Australian Cobotics Centre! Led by Founder and CEO Dominic Spooner, Vaulta is...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Zongyuan Zhang
Zongyuan Zhang is a PhD Researcher in the Biomimic Program and is currently researching the following problem: how to use robots with a non-rigidly ...
Expanding the Reach of Robotic Surgery: QUT Researchers Collaborate with Stryker on Mako System Adoption
Researchers from the Australian Cobotics Centre, based at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), have recently concluded a collaborative p...
Exploring the Realities of Cobot Adoption in Manufacturing
We’re proud to celebrate the latest publication from our research team in Futures, a leading journal by Science Direct. Congratulations to PhD resea...
Australian Cobotics Centre Researchers Present at AOA QORF 2025 Meeting
Last week, researchers from the Australian Cobotics Centre were proud to present their work at the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Queensland...
Exploring Cobot Adoption in Manufacturing: New Research Published in Futures
Congratulations to PhD researcher Nisar Ahmed Channa, Program Co-Lead Professor Greg Hearn, and Associate Investigator Associate Professor Dr Luca Cas...
Industry Calibration Visits Drive Deeper Alignment and Future Focus for Australian Cobotics Centre
As part of the Australian Cobotics Centre’s (ACC) ongoing commitment to delivering real-world impact, the Centre has recently commenced a series of ...
Cobotics in Surgery: Human-Centred Robotics Featured at QORF 2025
Researchers from the Australian Cobotics Centre were proud to present their latest advancements in human-centred robotics at the 2025 Queensland Ortho...
ARTICLE: Beyond Efficiency: Ethical Considerations of Adopting Cobots
Collaborative robots, commonly referred to as “Cobots,” are among the most groundbreaking technological advancements of our time. Academics and in...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Mariadas Roshan
Mariadas Roshan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Quality Assurance and Compliance program and is currently involved in an industrial-based c...
What Would Jim Henson Do? Roleplaying Human-Robot Collaborations Through Puppeteering
By James Dwyer and Dr Valeria Macalupu (both QUT) A tangible, adaptable and modular interface for embodied explorations of human-robot ...
HRI 2025: A Successful Conference for our researchers!
The ACM/IEEE International Human-Robot Interaction Conference (#HRI2025) in Melbourne has wrapped up and our team had a fantastic time at the conferen...
Swinburne Secures AEA Ignite Grant for AI-Enhanced Teleoperated Echocardiography
Congratulations to our Swinburne University of Technology lead Prof Mats Isaksson and postdoc, Mariadas Capsran Roshan on their successful Australian ...
ARTICLE: Integrating Vision-Guided Cobots into Steel Manufacturing
A cobot equipped with a laser-mounted end-effector points at a detected short bar. A green dot marks the identified short bar, providing a clear v...
Meet Our Team at #HRI2025 in Melbourne!
Meet Our Team at #HRI2025 in Melbourne! Researchers from 4 of our 5 programs will be at the ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference next week! ...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Valeria Macalupú
Valeria Macalupú is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Human-Robot Interaction program (P2), sessional educator and interdisciplinary designer a...
Exciting new collaborations are underway!
Quality Assurance and Compliance researchers, Dr. Mariadas Capsran Roshan (Swinburne University of Technology) and PhD researcher Munia Ahamed, visite...
2025 AIRAANZ Conference
In early February, our Human-Robot Workforce Program Co-Lead, Associate Professor Penny Williams and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Melinda Laundon ...
New Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Valeria Macalupú
We are pleased to welcome Dr Valeria Macalupú as our newest Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Valeria joins the QUT (Queensland University of Technolo...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Danial Rizvi
Danial Rizvi is a PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney supervised by Gavin Paul on Project 4.4 Data analytics and process val...
2024 Industry Symposium and Cobot mini-Expo
The Australian Cobotics Centre successfully hosted its first Industry Symposium and Mini-Expo on Thursday, 5th December 2024, at the QUT Kelvin Grove ...
ARTICLE: How Vocational Education and Training (VET) looks to meet the skills needs of the advanced Manufacturing Sector
As manufacturing moves to more advanced methods of production that utilises technologies such as cobots, vocational education and training (VET) provi...
2024 Centre Awards
At the annual ACC Symposium, an awards evening was held with nominations put forward by Centre members in the lead up to the event. Our annual awards ...
Celebrating Research Excellence: Australian Cobotics Centre’s Research Showcase 2024
On 5th December 2024, the Australian Cobotics Centre proudly hosted its annual Research Showcase, celebrating the achievements of its researchers over...
ARTICLE: Beyond the Factory Floor: Cobots as the Ultimate Growth Hack for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Automation has long been the domain of large enterprises with deep pockets and extensive resources. However, the landscape is undergoing a transformat...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Bochao Xu
Bochao Xu is an Associate PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney, and he is part of the Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems...
ARTICLE: Industry 5.0 and Cobot Adoption
TL;DR Industry 5.0 highlights environmental sustainability, human centricity, and resilience, pushing corporate responsibility to the social and ...
ARTICLE: Proposed guardrails for the safe and responsible use of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is appearing in many aspects of our life and work, and advancements are rapid and continuous. For most of us, it has been...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Phuong Tran
Phuong Tran is a PhD researcher based at the Queensland University of Technology and her project is part of the Collaborative Robots and Humans' Work ...
ARTICLE: From Lab to Market (Part II): Bridging the Gap – Solutions for Effective Industry-Academic Collaboration
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the synergy between academic research and industrial innovation has never been more critical. Yet...
ARTICLE: Accepted Papers for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Australian Cobotics Centre researchers have two papers accepted for publication at the upcoming IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot...
ARTICLE: Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration: The Role of Extended Reality
In advanced industries, the integration of Extended Reality (XR) technologies into Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) presents unprecedented opportunitie...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Louis Fernandez
Louis Fernandez is a PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney and his project is part of the Multi-modal Human Robot Collaboration,...
ARTICLE: From Lab to Market (Part I): Navigating the Obstacles in Academic-Industry Collaborations
As a researcher deeply invested in advancing knowledge and innovation, I've consistently encountered a significant challenge: securing meaningful part...
ARTICLE: Addressing gender pay disparities in engineering
Manufacturing is one of the top 3 engineering-heavy sectors in Australia, employing more than 46,000 qualified engineers. The manufacturing sector cur...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jasper Vermeulen
Jasper Vermeulen is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Sys...
ARTICLE: Enhancing Hydraulic Maintenance Operations with Multi-modal Feedback
Hydraulic systems are integral to industrial applications that require significant force, such as mining and manufacturing. Despite their power and ef...
Welcoming a new Industry Partner – Workr Labs
We're delighted to welcome Workr Labs Inc. as our newest industry partner to the Australian Cobotics Centre! Led by a talented team including Ken Mack...
ARTICLE: Industry 4.0 Awareness and Experience Workshop
These workshops were organised and run by Swinburne University of Technology's Factory of the Future and were funded through the Victorian Government'...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Yuan Liu
Yuan Liu is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Systems at...
Cook Medical Placement
Our University of Technology Sydney PhD researcher, Louis Fernandez, has just completed a one-month placement with our industry partner, Cook Medic...
ARTICLE: Enhancing Collaboration Between Humans and Robots: The Critical Role of Human Factors Research
This article is written by Jasper Vermeulen, PhD researcher at the Australian Cobotics Centre. Integrating collaborative robots (cobots) in...
ARTICLE: Robotic Blended Sonification: Consequential Robot Sound as Creative Material for Human-Robot Interaction
This article is written by Stine S. Johansen, Jared Donovan, Markus Rittenbruch (Human-Robot-Interaction Program) at Australian Cobotics Centre, and Y...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, James Dwyer
James Dwyer is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Human-Robot-Interaction Program at the Aus...
Welcome to our new Chief Investigator
We are pleased to welcome a new Chief Investigator from University of Technology Sydney, Dr Victor Hernandez Moreno. Victor is a former Associate Ph...
CONGRATULATIONS James – Confirmation of Candidature
We extend our congratulations to James Dwyer, our PhD researcher, for successfully completing his confirmation seminar on March 20th. James's thes...
Welcoming a new Industry Partner – Tafe Queensland
We are pleased to announce that TAFE Queensland has joined the Centre as an Industry Partner! TAFE Queensland offers our Centre valuable insight ...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Akash Brinly Hettiarachchi
Akash Hettiarachchi is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and his project is part of the Human-Robot Workforce Program at t...
CONGRATULATIONS Akash – Confirmation of Candidature
Massive congratulations to our PhD researcher, Akash Brinly Hettiarachchi who completed his confirmation seminar last week on Wednesday, 6 March! ...
New PhD Researcher, Zongyuan Zhang
We are pleased to welcome Zongyuan Zhang, our newest team member. Zongyuan is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), supervi...
ARTICLE: Reflections from the 2023 OZCHI workshop on Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration
This article is written by Stine Johansen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Human-Robot-Interaction Program) at Australian Cobotics Centre. At...
Two papers accepted for ISEA 2024
Our researchers have two papers accepted to the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2024) which will be held in Meanjin (Brisbane) from 21...
Goodbye & Thank You
Farewell to Our THWS Visiting Researchers! It's time to say goodbye to our three visiting researchers from the Technical University of Applied ...
PhD Project Introductions
Collaboration and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Centre. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introduc...
ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration in Healthcare: Challenges and Prospects
This article is written by Amir Asadi, PhD researcher at the Australian National University (ANU) and a visiting researcher at Australian Cobotics Cen...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jacqueline Greentree
Jacqueline Greentree is a PhD researcher based at Queensland University of Technology and her project is part of the Human-Robot Workforce Program at ...
Project Wrap-up: Shorts project Phase 2
Our research team from UTS and QUT has wrapped up phase 2 of the “Shorts” project with Infrabuild which involved demonstrating steel bar removal u...
Swinburne PhD Researchers win Peoples Choice award for ‘WeedoMate’
PhD researchers from Swinburne, Jagannatha Pyaraka and Kartik Choudhary, and their supervisor, A/Prof Mats Isaksson have invented WeedoMate, a revol...
Goodbye & Thank You
We are sad to farewell two of our researchers this month: * Dr Mickey Clemon from University of Technology Sydney and co-lead of the Quality As...
2023 Symposium – PhD researcher posters
At our annual symposium each of students were asked to create a research poster. For most of our students, this was the first research poster they h...
2023 Symposium: PhD Poster Winners
At our annual symposium each of students were asked to create a research poster. For most of our students, this was the first research poster they hav...
CONGRATULATIONS Barış Balcı – Final Seminar
Massive congratulations to our PhD researcher, Barış Balcı who completed his final seminar today! His thesis is entitled: Methods for Robo...
Welcome to our new Associate PhD Researchers
We'd like to officially welcome three new Associate PhD Researchers to the Australian Cobotics Centre team. Bochao Xu (UTS), Designing Socio Tech...
ACRA 2023
Our Biomimic Cobots research program have had a great couple of days at the 2023 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation) cohosted by U...
Welcome to our new CI’s
We'd like to officially welcome two new Chief Investigators from UTS to the Centre and to our Quality Assurance and Compliance research program. * ...
OzCHI Workshop 2023
As part of 2023 OzCHI conference held in New Zealand from 1-6th December, our researchers along with those from CSIRO, conducted a workshop on "Empow...
Congratulations to our PhD Researchers
Congratulations to our PhD Researchers who passed their confirmation of candidature over the past month! Jacqueline Greentree from QUT (Queensl...
Successful Annual Symposium Wraps Up at University of Technology Sydney
The Australian Cobotics Centre has successfully wrapped up its annual symposium after three days of engaging activities at the University of Technolog...
Awards Evening – ACC Annual Symposium 2023
At the annual ACC Symposium, an awards evening was held with nominations put forward by Centre members in the lead up to the event. Our annual awards...
Connect & Share event
Last night we held the second PhD Connect and Share event at University of Technology Sydney. We were joined by other Sydney-based ARC funded Trai...
TAFE Qld Emerging Technology event
Last week we went along to the TAFE Queensland Engineering and Emerging Technology Industry night at Eagle Farm. Centre Director, Jonathan R...
CONGRATULATIONS Victor Hernandez Moreno – Final Seminar
Congratulations to Victor Hernandez Moreno from the UTS Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, and Associate PhD Researcher from the Australian Coboti...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Anushani Bibile
Anushani Bibile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, based at Swinburne University of Technology. Her project is part of the Quality Assurance and Compl...
Giving cobots the human touch through biomimicry
This is article written by Robyn Barden from UTS and originally published via the UTS website Giving cobots the human touch through biomimicry | U...
Robotic Guide Dog project
Super exciting that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has featured the Robotic Guide Dog project by QUT (Queensland University of Techn...
ARTICLE: Navigating Augmented Reality: User Interface and UX in Cobotics
Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Alan Burden from the Designing Socio-technical Robotic Systems research program in the Centre. The ...
Congratulations Dr Stine Johansen on her ECR Grant
Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr Stine Johansen on her ECR Grant from the QUT Centre for Robotics! QUT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine Jo...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Nadimul Haque
Nadimul Haque is a PhD researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots Program at the Australia...
ARTICLE: How to ensure quality assurance when integrating a cobot
Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Anushani Bibile and Research Program Co-Lead, Dr. Michelle Dunn, both from SUT A collaborative robot (...
New PhD Researcher, Justin Botha
Let's introduce Justin Botha, our newest team member. Justin is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), actively involved in t...
PhD Project Introductions
Collaboration and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Centre. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introduc...
ARTICLE: Cobots in manufacturing: Good for skill shortages and much more.
Written by Research Program Co-Lead Professor Greg Hearn and PhD Candidate Nisar Ahmed Channa both from the Human Robot Workforce research program in ...
6 Reasons Why We Need a Prototyping Toolkit for Designing Human-Robot Collaboration
Written by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine S Johansen and PhD Researcher, James Dwyer In this short article, we will share 6 benefits of ha...
ARTICLE: Can we Unlock the Potential of Collaborative Robots?
Written by Dr Marc Carmichael and Louis Fernandez from the Australian Cobotics Centre. Collaborative robots, or cobots for short, have gained signi...
PhD Project Introductions
Cooperation and sharing of information are vital for the success of our Center. To support this, we ask our PhD Researchers to give a brief introducti...
New PhD Researcher, Eleonora Zodo
Let's introduce Eleonora Zodo, our newest team member. Eleonora is a PhD researcher at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), actively involved ...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Jagannatha Pyaraka
Jagannatha Pyaraka is a PhD researcher based at Swinburne and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots Program at the Australian Cobotics Centre. ...
ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration through Augmented Reality
Written by Dr Alan Burden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Australian Cobotics Centre. In previous articles, we delved into socio-technical s...
TAFE Queensland Explores QUT Centre for Robotics’ Industry Collaborations
Yesterday, TAFE Queensland's representatives visited the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR) at the Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point camp...
Congratulations to our PhD researcher, Jagannatha Pyaraka
Congratulations to our PhD researcher from Swinburne University of Technology, Jagannatha Charjee Pyaraka who passed his confirmation of candidature ...
Centre Director Prof Jonathan Roberts at QUT Centre for Justice’s Disability & Inclusion Symposium
Last week, Centre Director Prof Jonathan Roberts was part of the discusison panel at QUT Centre for Justice's Disability & Inclusion symposium....
Dr. Matthias Guertler Presents New Research on Expanding the Scope of Cobots at ICED23
Research Program co-lead, Dr Matthias Guertler, shared valuable insights at #ICED23 through his presentation on the topic "When is a robot a cobot...
Two joint CSIRO & Australian Cobotics Centre scholarships now available!
We are currently recruiting for two PhD Scholarships funded by CSIRO's Data61's Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) Future Science Platform. Both s...
Evidence Given as part of the ‘Developing Australian Manufacturing’ Inquiry.
The Australian Cobotics Centre just gave evidence to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources as part of t...
‘Developing Advanced Manufacturing in Australia’ Committee visit to ARM Hub
Members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources visited ARM Hub on 24th July as part of their visit to B...
Centre-wide mid-year meeting
On 18th July, we held our mid-year meeting. This year each university hosted an in-person event and we joined together via zoom. It was fantastic t...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Munia Ahamed
The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Munia Ahamed is a ...
Great interview with our Chief Investigator, Dr Sean Gallagher!
Dr Sean Gallagher is the director of Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for the New Workforce, Chief Investigator at the Australian Cob...
Encounters with Cobots at Swinburne University of Technology
Fantastic event at Swinburne University of Technology last night! There were over 35 people in attendance at Swinburne's Intelligent Robotics Lab...
Australian Cobotics Centre and UTS Robotics Institute Undergraduates Unveil Inverted Robot Mount for InfraBuild Project
The Australian Cobotics Centre's researchers from the UTS Robotics Institute, in collaboration with a talented group of undergraduates, has made signi...
New PhD Researcher, Jasper Vermeulen
Welcome to Jasper Vermeulen, our newest PhD Researcher working on the Human Factors in Collaborative Robotics project, as part of the Designing Soc...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Nisar Ahmed Channa
The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Nisar Ahmed Ch...
ARTICLE: 6 Reasons Why We Need a Prototyping Toolkit for Designing Human-Robot Collaboration
In this article, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stine Johansen and PhD Researcher, James Dwyer highlight the pressing need for a #prototyping toolk...
PhD Project Introductions
Collaboration and information sharing across our research programs and disciplines is vital for our Centre's success. To support this, we ask that all...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Alan Burden
The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Alan is a Post...
ARTICLE: The Human Robot Workforce research program
To implement #collaborativerobotics effectively in #advancedmanufacturing, we must address the both the technological advancements required and the...
Stryker’s Mako robot in action
Earlier this week PhD Researcher, James Dwyer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alan Burden got to observe a robotic knee surgery performed by Pro...
Australian Manufacturing Week 2023
[caption id="attachment_2014" align="alignright" width="272"] PhD researcher Jagannatha Pyaraka and research program co-lead, Dr Michelle Dunn[/captio...
CIRP Design 2023
On Friday, 19 May, our 'Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems' research program Co-lead, Dr Matthias Guertler (from UTS Tech Lab) chaired a sess...
Australian Research Council visit to ARM Hub
On Wednesday, 17 May, we were very lucky to have Australian Research Council Chief Research Officer, Professor Christina Twomey visit us at ARM Hu...
Accelerate Manufacturing Conference, Dalby
On Wednesday, 17 May, Centre Director Jonathan Roberts and ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing)'s Samuel Jesuadian were in Dalby for the ...
Designing Shared Human-Robot Spaces – The Impact that Spatial Design Has on Socio-Technical Systems
Written by Dr Alan Burden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Australian Cobotics Centre. In the era of rapidly advancing technology, socio-tech...
Field trip to Infrabuild’s Newcastle Rod Mill
Our UTS Robotics Institute researchers (Program Lead, Teresa Vidal Calleja, Postdoc, Fouad (Fred) Sukkar and PhD Researcher, Nadimul Haque) have...
Australian Manufacturing Week
Michelle Dunn and Jagannatha Charjee Pyaraka represented the Australian Cobotics Centre alongside Weld Australia at the 'Australian Manufacturing We...
New PhD Researcher, Yuan Liu
Welcome to Yuan Liu, our newest PhD Researcher working on the Augmented and Virtual Reality in Collaborative Robotics project, as part of the Designi...
New PhD Researcher, Louis Fernandez
Welcome to Louis Fernandez! Louis is a PhD Researcher working on our Multi-modal Human Robot Collaboration project, which is part of the Human Robot I...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Fred Sukkar
The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Fred (Fouad) S...
Building a Pipeline of Engineers: UTS Connections
Thanks to Research program co-Lead, Matthias Guertler, PhD researchers, Munia Ahamed, and Fikre Hagos and visiting Masters researcher from Nurembe...
Welcoming Australia’s industry policy leaders to ARM Hub
Australian Cobotics Centre partner ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) hosted Federal Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic MP and...
ARTICLE: Guidelines for Safe Collaborative Robot Design and Implementation
Congratulations to Dr Matthias Guertler and team (including Dr. Nathalie Sick, Gavin Paul, Marc Carmichael, Manisha Amin, Rebecca Grace, Sazza...
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction March 13-16, 2023 Stockholm, SE
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Stine Johansen was at the IEEE Human Robot Interaction Conference this week where she presented her paper, Illustrati...
ARTICLE: Try-a-Trade, Gladstone
By Melinda Laundon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Jacqueline Greentree, PhD Researcher, Human-Robot Workforce Program, Australian Cobotics Centre ...
New PhD researchers visit Infrabuild
Great to see our new PhD researchers, Munia Ahamed and Fikre Hagos out at InfraBuild Sydney with Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fouad (Fred) Suk...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Dr Melinda Laundon
The Australian Cobotics Centre has some incredibly E.P.I.C. researchers. Each month we will be profiling a different researcher. Dr Melinda Laundon is...
QUT’s Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES)
The Centre has been lucky enough to have two undergraduate students from QUT, Sabrin Daniel and Melanie Lay, working on projects with us over the last...
Changes to QUT’s Chief Investigators
We'd like to officially welcome our newly appointed Chief Investigator, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira to our Centre. Muge will be replacing Anjali who ...
ARTICLE: Human-Robot Collaboration Challenges and Opportunities in Australia
At the 2022 annual Australian conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, OzCHI, 20 researchers from leading Australian robo...
ARTICLE: Cutting-edge careers
Research Program Lead Dr Penny Williams featured in The Australian today in an article entitled, "The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work",...
The Australian “The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work”, Dr Penny Williams
Research Program Lead Dr Penny Williams featured in The Australian today in an article entitled, "The rise of AI is shaking up the world of work",...
New PhD Researcher, Akash Hettiarachchi
Welcome to Akash Hettiarachchi! Akash is a PhD researcher in the Centre, working with our Human Robot Workforce program based at QUT (Queensland Uni...
ARTICLE: A Very Brief Introduction to Socio-technical Systems: And How They Will Impact Our Future Robot Interactions.
Technology permeates all aspects of modern society, from using social media to communicate with friends to relying on machine automation for mundane t...
New PhD Researcher, James Dwyer
Welcome to our newest PhD Researcher, James Dwyer based at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)! James is joining our Human Robot Interaction ...
Robotic Vision Summer School: An Overview from our PhD Researchers
The Robotics Vision Summer School (RVSS) is an annual event that brings together researchers and students from all over the world to learn about the l...
ICRA 2023 – Accepted Papers from The Australian Cobotics Centre
Australian Cobotics Centre researchers have three papers accepted for publication at the upcoming International Conference on Robotics and Automation ...
New PhD Researcher, Munia Ahamed
Our Quality Assurance and Compliance research program has a new PhD Researcher, Munia Ahamed. Munia is supervised by Lee Clemon and is based at UTS...
2023 Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference
On 8th February, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Melinda Laundon presented on Cobots at the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australi...
Jobs Queensland and Australian Cobotics Centre Report Launch
On Tuesday 7th February, Jobs Queensland and the Australian Cobotics Centre officially launched their joint report, Advancing Manufacturing: Exploring...
New PhD Researcher – Fikre Gebremeskel
Welcome to our newest PhD Researcher, Fikre Gebremeskel based at UTS Tech Lab! Fikre is joining our Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems pro...
Australian Cobotics Centre Launch – Project Demonstrations
The key to success for the Centre is in our collaboration across disciplines and with our industry partners. Our demonstrations showcased this and ...
ACRA 2022 Papers and Award Winners!
Australian Cobotics Centre researchers presented a number of papers and won a number of awards at the recent 2022 ACRA conference. The Centre had t...
‘Cobotic Improvisation’ project performance
The ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) co-hosted a performance event with a difference as part of the official launch of the Australian Cob...
2022 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation
The Australian Cobotics Centre hosted the 2022 Australasian Conference for Robotics & Automation (ACRA) from 6-8th December. Held at QUT's Gard...
The Australian Cobotics Centre Official Launch
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Richard Johnson, today officially launched the ARC Training Centre for C...
Welcome to our postdoc, Anushani Bibile
Anushani Bibile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Quality Assurance and Compliance research program at the Australian Cobotics Centre. She sta...
Welcome to our new PhD researcher, Nisar Channa
Welcome to Nisar Channa, our latest PhD researcher at QUT working in the Human-Robot Workforce program. He received his Master of Science (Manageme...
‘Human-Computer Interaction’ OzCHI workshop
Australian Cobotics Centre and CSIRO's Data61 researchers ran a workshop at OzCHI on 29th November. The workshop, held at The Australian National Un...
PhD research into process optimisation at B&R Enclosures
Associate PhD researcher, Ruba Al-zqebah from UTS, visited B & R Enclosures last week to conduct some observations as part of her research around ...
Shorts project features in Industry Update
Centre Director, Prof Jonathan Roberts and InfraBuild's Industry 4.0 Lead, Andrew Thomas were recently interviewed by Industry Update about the Shorts...
Centre researchers present at QUT’s Centre for Biomedical Technologies Conference
Some of our Centre's researchers presented at the Centre for Biomedical Technologies 2022 Conference. The presentations focused on the Centre's T...
Innovative Manufacturing CRC Celebrations
The Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) is coming to a close at the end of the year and to celebrate, they held a project showcase to highlight the...
QUT’s Design Robotics Team wins AFR Industry Engagement award
[caption id="attachment_444" align="alignleft" width="150"] Jared Donovan[/caption] Congratulations to QUT's Design Robotics team for winning The A...
Welcome to new PhD Researcher, Nadimul Haque
Welcome to our newest PhD researcher from UTS Robotics Institute, Nadimul Haque. Nadimul is supervised by Teresa Vidal Calleja and leads a research...
Teresa Vidal-Calleja – 2022 Women in Robotics you need to know about
Congratulations to our Research Program co-Lead, Teresa Vidal Calleja who has been named as one of 2022's Women in Robotics You Need to Know About. ...
Welcome to new PhD researcher, Jacqueline Greentree
The ACC has welcomed a new PhD Researcher, Jacqueline Greentree. Jacqueline is based at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and is part of th...
ACC at the Modern Manufacturing Expo
Last week some of our team from UTS Tech Lab (Teresa Vidal Calleja, Marc Carmichael and Matthias Guertler) attended the Modern Manufacturing Exp...
Congratulations to Dr Penny Williams on her ARC DECRA grant
Dr Penny Williams has been awarded an ARC DECRA grant for her project ‘Automated People Management: When algorithms manage employees’. The $...
Highly commended award for Dr Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira
Associate Investigator, Dr Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira was highly commended in the Digital Mover and Shaker Award category at the recent 2022 Women in ...
New PhD scholarship with CSIRO available
We are pleased to announce a new scholarship for the Centre that is funded by and also a part of CSIRO's Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Pla...
Our first year: Industry placements
Continuing our celebration of 1 year in operation, today we are looking at one of the key elements of the Centre – the 12 month industry placement t...
Meer our E.P.I.C. Researchers: Associate Professor Mats Isaksson
Recently we interviewed one of our E.P.I.C. researchers from Swinburne University of Technology, Associate Professor Mats Isaksson, co-Lead of the ‘...
Our first year: Cobotic Welding
Centre Chief Investigator, Prof Will Browne is leading a cobotic welding project with two of his undergraduate students and the Centre's Engineers fro...
Our first year: Shorts Project
Continuing our celebration of 1 year in operation, today we are looking at one of the first projects of the Centre – the Shorts project with InfraBu...
Celebrating our 1st Year of Operation!
Today marks the completion of our first year of operation! Over the past year, we've spent a lot of time understanding the challenges of our indust...
B & R Enclosures Workshop and Staff Survey
On 25th July and 8th August, researchers from the Centre (Glenda Caldwell, Greg Hearn, Penny Williams, Stine Johansen, Melinda Laundon and Alan Burd...
Weld Australia Magazine – Members survey
In early 2022, the Australian Cobotics Centre conducted a survey of Weld Australia members about their workforce and technology challenges. This feedb...
SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence awarded to Centre’s researchers
Congratulations to our 'Human-Robot Workforce' researchers, co-lead Dr Penny Williams and Chief Investigator Prof Paula McDonald on being awarded the ...
Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) Residency at ARM Hub and Cobotics Centre
We are pleased to announce that the ARM Hub (and Australian Cobotics Centre) will be hosting Dr Steph Hutchison through an Australian Network for A...
Meet our E.P.I.C. Researcher, Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell
[caption id="attachment_1263" align="alignleft" width="231"] Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell[/caption] The Australian Cobotics Centre has some ...
17th International DESIGN Festival paper published
A Life-Cycle Framework to Manage Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Open Organisation We are very proud to announce the Centre's first...
Changes to our Swinburne Chief Investigators
We are sad to announce the departure of two of our Program co-Leads from Swinburne University of Technology. Professor XiaoQi Chen is mov...
Welcome to our first PhD Researchers!
We would like to officially welcome our first PhD students to the Centre. Baris Balci, is based at QUT and his project is part of the Biomimic Cobots...
What has Star Wars influenced over the last 45 years
Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Roberts, spoke with Sirine Demachkie on Weekend Evenings on ABC Radio about the influence of Star Wars. Jonatha...
QUT robotics researchers have a new robotic best friend
The Australian Cobotics Centre's Associate PhD Student, Marisa Bucolo, was recently featured in the Queensland University of Technology News as one of...
Collaborative Robotics: Helping to create a safer workplace and more engaged workforce
Cobotics can help create safer working environments for people. This is particularly important within Australian manufacturing, an industry with one o...
Happy World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development!
Happy World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development! Today we recognise and celebrate the contribution of engineers and the importance their wo...
Dr Sean Gallagher on ABC Radio Melbourne: Presenteeism and Burnout
Chief Investigator Dr Sean Gallagher featured on ABC Radio Melbourne's lunchtime program with Jacinta Parsons on 17th February. He talked about presen...
Current Developments in Medical Robotics seminar from Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute
Join one of the Centre's Chief Investigators, Dr. Mats Isaksson on 15th February to hear him talk about current developments within Medical Robots. ...
Thank you for an E.P.I.C 2021!
As we approach the end of 2021, we often take stock of the year that has just passed. We look back on the successes, look for opportunities to enha...
Teresa Vidal-Calleja on ‘Let’s Talk Robotics’ podcast
Our Biomimic Cobots program co-lead, the amazing Teresa Vidal Calleja (Associate Professor at UTS Robotics Institute) featured in today's episode of "...
Editorial feature in AU Manufacturing’s ‘Leadership in Factory Automation’ series
The Australian Cobotics Centre features in the latest editorial series of Au Manufacturing! Au Manufacturing is the news and analysis website...
Let’s talk robotics with Professor Jonathan Roberts
Centre Director, Jonathan Roberts featured in the latest episode of "Let's talk robotics" by Nicci Rossouw from Expatec. The robotics capability ...
Prestigious Academy of Social Sciences recognises Professor Paula McDonald
The Australian Cobotics Centre congratulates Professor Paula McDonald who has been newly elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Scien...
Human Robot Interaction at the Centre for Biomedical Technologies 2021 conference
Centre Director, Jonathan Roberts was joined by Human-Robot-Interaction Program co-lead, Jared Donovan and industry partner, Cook Medical's Alex Bud...
Australian Welding Magazine features the Australian Cobotics Centre!
The Australian Cobotics Centre features in the latest edition of Australian Welding Magazine, the Official Journal of Weld Australia! Weld Au...
“Robots create jobs” – ARM Hub visit to Mackay
Centre Director Jonathan Roberts and Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub CEO Cori Stewart recently visited the Resources Centre of Excell...
We’re hiring Postdoctoral Research Fellows!
We're hiring! We are currently recruiting for postdoctoral Research Fellows (LEVB) to work across each of our five research programs across our three...
The Australian Cobotics Centre is officially in operation!
We are pleased to announce the Australian Cobotics Centre is officially in operation! The Centre is funded for 5 years as part of the Australian R...
Congratulations to our Researchers for recent promotions!
Congratulations to the Australian Cobotics Centre Chief Investigators and Research Program Co-Leads Jared Donovan and Matthias Guertler on their recen...
Safe Work NSW tender awarded to UTS team
Congratulations to Chief Investigator Matthias Guertler and the team from UTS! They have been awarded a tender from The NSW Centre for Work Health...
Swinburne’s “Peak Human Workplace” report launched
In April, the Centre for the New Workforce in Swinburne launched their latest research, Peak Human Workforce report in learning and collaboration in...
Funding announced for ARC Training Centre
A research team lead by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has received $4.9 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for a new t...