POSTED: 03 Mar, 2026
We’re delighted to welcome several new researchers and collaborators to the Australian Cobotics Centre.
Jiayue Chen
Jiayue joins us as a new PhD researcher working on a joint CSIRO–ACC project, supervised by Professor Will Browne.
Professor Andrew Vande Moere
Professor Andrew Vande Moere is a visiting academic from the School of Architecture in KU Leuven, Belgium and will be based at QUT, hosted by Professor Glenda Caldwell until June.
Bhanu Watawana
Bhanu joins the Centre as a Research Assistant with the Swinburne team, supporting our cobot welding project with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mariadas Capsran Roshan, alongside Quality Assurance and Compliance Co‑Lead Dr Michelle Dunn.
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