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We are entering a new era of living and working with robots. Elizabeth Croft of Monash University discusses designing robots that will interface well with society.
Robots from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are set to help retailers, farmers, and other industry players save time and money. One of the university’s leading roboticists, Peter Corke, explains how.
Since its inception, KUKA's Medical Robotics Division has collaborated with medical manufacturers to ensure that doctors, therapists and, above all, patients can benefit from its robotics expertise.
Swinburne University of Technology research pursues impactful results. In coming years, countless new products and services will be based on new technologies. With so many promising applications of technology, we need to ask what the best investment of our resources, effort and ideas is. At Swinburne University of Technology, this is the deeply ingrained principle driving our research: technology must aim to achieve positive economic and social impact by improving people’s lives and the state of our planet through better and smarter applications. Put another way, new technologies that help people will be the ones that succeed. Our applied research at Swinburne is placed at the interface between technology and humanity. As a science and technology university, Swinburne’s fundamental research often leads to new discoveries and breakthrough technological solutions. At Swinburne, we are proud to pursue research with impact.
