in the AFR Higher Education Awards 2022, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts of Australian universities during the past year, have now been announced.
It works across all parts of the creative process, from commissioning and curatorial services, concept generation and design development, right through to engineering, fabrication and installation. “The plan was always to push the envelope of what’s possible in manufacturing that relies on traditional methods to see what’s possible with the help of robotics,” Donovan says.
“We realised that there could be huge potential to apply robotic fabrication technologies in the construction process. But the real problem was that we didn’t know what the shape of the object was, so we knew we needed an adaptable robot and digital finishing process to be able to clean up the metal pieces,” he says.
The collaboration has also led to the creation of The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub in 2020, which is an agile technology centre in robotics, an $18 million initiative funded by Queensland University of Technology.Victoria University-Western Health Alliance The diploma is an industry integrated course initiated by Flinders and BAE to upskill 51 shipbuilders facing redundancy at the end of the AWD program and equipped them with digital skills for the Hunter Class Frigate Program.
Under the program, current students and industry partners volunteer their time in schools around Perth to speak to students about the career options in engineering. Defence is a key focus for the university, which has been educating the Australian Defence Force for 50 years and is home to the Defence Research Institute.The catalyst for the Design Robotics project was a visit by UAP to QUT to see whether robotic technologies could be applied to their highly bespoke manufacturing operations.
A design-led collaborative research approach was crucial to the success of the project. The research team was consistently embedded within UAP’s facilities in Brisbane carrying out research and taking part in weekly stand-up meetings to track project progress.