robotics

  • Meet Australia’s Newest RoboCup Team

    raejohnston

    A new Australian team will take on the world’s best at the biggest robot competition in Japan later this month. “UTS Unleashed!” is the only Australian team to qualify for the 2017 RoboCup @ Home Social Robot League – a competition that requires teams to design robot behaviours that allow for interaction and collaboration with…

  • Meet The Biohackers Letting Technology Get Under Their Skin

    Lifehacker Australia

    For some people, the human body isn’t a temple. Instead they see it as a source of frustration thanks to the considerable limitations compared to the powerful technology available today. In the last few years, a new community of biohackers or “grinders” has sprung up to experiment with enhancing the human body with technology. Largely…

  • The Best Way To Teach Kids About STEM Is Wall-Demolishing Robots

    chrisjager

    This weekend, school students from around the country will be competing in the 2016 FIRST Robotics Asia Pacific final — by besieging a castle with homemade semi–autonomous robots. It’s being billed as self–driving cars meets Game of Thrones and is clearly the coolest thing to happen in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Which is kind…