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Online match-making tool promoting a circular economy goes national

We create more than 2 billion tonnes of waste annually, with that number expected to grow to 3.4 billion by 2050. According to the World Bank, the majority (33%) of worldwide waste is disposed in an open dump, while 25.2% is discarded in unspecified (opposed to sanitary or controlled) landfill. Australia generates 67 million of...

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AFP using AI innovation to protect investigators from abhorrent material

‘The more data the better’ is a recurring request from organisations when it comes to mining data sets to solve complex problems. However, in unique cases, being exposed to too much data can be harmful to one’s mental health when working on the data-driven front line. The Australian Federal Police are tasked with identifying abhorrent...

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Mars and our path to being an interplanetary species

In his latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner argues that as we look back and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, now is the time to set our sights on Mars. In 1961 John F Kennedy challenged America to put humans on the moon. That same year...

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This common action is putting you at risk of being deepfaked

As we move further into the Computer Age, fake news, digital deceit and widespread use of social media are having a profound impact on every element of society, from swaying elections and manipulating science-proven facts, to encouraging racial bias and exploiting women.  Once a topic only discussed in computer research labs, deepfakes were catapulted into...

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Spotlight on Women in Tech

A Q&A with Lucy Cameron from the Data61 Insights team on her career journey and why she decided to get involved with Hopper Down Under, taking place in Brisbane on 29-31 July. #WeAreHere WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO PURSUE A CAREER IN SCIENCE AND TECH?  My Dad was a maths and economics teacher, and at home...

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Australia wins (robot) Soccer World Cup

* Feature image credited to RoboCup Federation Not just fancy footwork – two sport savvy researchers from the University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61 with expertise spanning coding, data and complex systems have scored first place at one of the world’s most prestigious robotics competitions. Fifteen international teams from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Iran, Japan...

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Engineering identity from anonymity: Our work on risks of re-identification

As you’ve no doubt read, either through Algorithm or national news, data is everywhere. We create and consume data continuously. This data is specific to us, but when consolidated, this shared data can be of immense value. The value is not only for population level insights. An example – it has been identified that data...

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CSIRO’s Data61 SubT team at the DARPA’s Tunnel Circuit event

Data61’s SubT team took part in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Event in Pittsburgh, USA on the 15th August. Just before the team took off to the US, we caught up with Fred Pauling, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group Leader, Data61. A squad of five autonomous robots and our SubT...

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Mixed Reality Lab to house ‘game-changing’ digital twin technology

Imagine the future of smart factories, where the digitalisation of the full value chain (design, production, and distribution) would enable real-time situational awareness and lead to better decision making and planning. This advanced method of production is at the core of CSIRO’s Data61 Mixed Reality Lab.   A ‘technology game-changer’ for manufacturing and multiple other industries,...

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Cashing in: Australia’s role in $1trn robotic revolution

In his latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner explores how we can unlock the economic and societal benefits of robots. Fifteen international teams from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Iran, Japan and Portugal recently descended on Sydney for the 2019 RoboCup Millennium Challenge. Eleven fully autonomous virtual robots known as...

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Digital Human – Simulation of human biophysics for health, performance and safety

Detailed, 3D simulations of everyday activities such as eating, moving and working allows us to improve health, performance and safety without expensive and invasive measurements and, with the use of high performance computing, can be used to optimise outcomes for community, for sports, and for workplace safety. A “Digital Human” A digital replication of a...

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This common action is putting you at risk of being deepfaked

As we move further into the Computer Age, fake news, digital deceit and widespread use of social media are having a profound impact on every element of society, from swaying elections and manipulating science-proven facts, to encouraging racial bias and exploiting women.  Once a topic only discussed in computer research labs, deepfakes were catapulted into...

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Spotlight on Women in Tech

A Q&A with Lucy Cameron from the Data61 Insights team on her career journey and why she decided to get involved with Hopper Down Under, taking place in Brisbane on 29-31 July. #WeAreHere WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO PURSUE A CAREER IN SCIENCE AND TECH?  My Dad was a maths and economics teacher, and at home...
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Big Tech Impacts for 2018

Technological change accelerates faster than our ability to observe it, but with enough investigative rigour, we can scratch at the surface of the near future

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D61+Live 2018 - Building robust AI

While artificial intelligence can undertake some tasks more efficiently than humans, there are other tasks it cannot adequately replicate. What happens if an autonomous vehicle interprets a tampered stop sign as a speed limit?

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D61+Live 2018 - CSIRO's Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley

Economic and social prosperity depends on change. Behind every breakthrough technology that drives change is science.CSIRO's Chief Scientist shares her experience on achieving breakthroughs in science over her 33 years at CSIRO, and what it takes to succeed.
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Data61 Robotics Reel

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Some snapshots of our robotics technology, taken during the ICRA2018 conference. This was shot at our Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies facility.

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