POSTED: 07 Feb, 2025
In early February, our Human-Robot Workforce Program Co-Lead, Associate Professor Penny Williams and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Melinda Laundon were at the 2025 AIRAANZ conference co-hosted by Pasifika at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University.
They presented their conference paper s on a range of work and technology research including labour shortages in manufacturing.

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