Can 3D printing rebuild manufacturing in Australia?
08 October, 2013 by John Barnes*, CSIROIt’s not easy being a small business in the current manufacturing environment. The face of manufacturing is changing, and businesses are eager for technological advances that could give them a competitive advantage. Maybe 3D printing can help.
Robotics could improve agricultural competitiveness
24 September, 2013If Australia is to become the 'food bowl' of Asia, the agriculture industry needs to regain its competitive edge. One answer to this, according to a University of Sydney professor, is robotics.
Soccer-playing rescue robots compete at UQ
23 September, 2013Hundreds of school students from Australia and around the world converged on the University of Queensland to compete in RoboCup Junior Australia over the weekend.
Robotics comes FIRST for Rockwell Automation
18 September, 2013Rockwell Automation has sponsored the biggest FIRST tournament in Australia to date. FIRST recently held the Asia Pacific Open FIRST LEGO League Championship and Invitational FIRST Tech Challenge in Sydney.
International collaboration on membrane technology project
06 September, 2013University of Sydney researchers recently received a $1.36 million grant from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia which will allow the international research team to continue its work in the field of membrane technology.
Protecting groundwater from mining and industrial waste
23 August, 2013A team at the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training has developed a cheaper and more efficient way to test the design of store-release covers, which can prevent toxic chemicals leaching from landfill and mining waste.
Floating oil and gas partnership proposal welcomed by university
20 August, 2013Kevin Rudd’s proposal to create a National Floating Systems Research Centre has been welcomed by the University of Western Australia. The centre would be developed with industry, government, UWA and three other Australian universities as research partners.
Citizen scientists invited to analyse underwater robot images
12 August, 2013Thousands of budding marine biologists have been invited to examine images captured by Sirius, an autonomous underwater vehicle belonging to the University of Sydney’s ACFR designed to track the location of kelp and sea urchin populations.
CSIRO helps smelters cut energy consumption
12 August, 2013Large smelters in electricity-intensive, metal-winning industries can use as much power as a medium-sized city, so finding ways to reduce their energy requirement is a high priority. In a bid to help smelters cut their consumption and associated emissions, the Australian research agency CSIRO, in partnership with industry players, is assessing and testing new electrical connection systems.
Sensor start-up declines $10m and stays in Australia
09 August, 2013An optical sensor technology start-up has stuck to its guns and will continue to work from Australia, despite an appealing $10 million offer from Chinese investors to move offshore.
New research facility to revolutionise manufacturing research
02 August, 2013A new research facility that combines Monash University and CSIRO research could transform manufacturing in areas such as biomedicine, transport, aerospace engineering and mineral processing.
Increased mining automation could threaten jobs
29 July, 2013While increasing automation in mining tasks can improve safety, it may jeopardise on-site jobs, a new report from the UQ’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining has found.
CSIRO’s slag performance database: adding value to Australia’s coal resources
29 July, 2013A growing international coal gasification market offers potential for coal deposits previously ranked of low value to become a highly marketable resource.
Dell delivers high-performance cloud for NCI
25 July, 2013Dell has been contracted to supply a 3200 core high-performance computer cloud for the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Can we trust robots?
09 July, 2013Humans still seem to worry that the robots we build to serve us may one day turn against us. To address this irrational fear, a UK research project will explore how robots can interact with humans in an increasingly safe and trustworthy manner.
