POSTED: 07 Dec, 2023
We’d like to officially welcome three new Associate PhD Researchers to the Australian Cobotics Centre team.
- Bochao Xu (UTS), Designing Socio Technical Robotic Systems
- Tom Long (QUT), Human Robot Interaction
- Wei Win Loy (QUT), Human Robot Interaction & Designing Socio Technical Robotic Systems

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