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The Early Adopters Program

CSIRO's Data61’s Early Adopter Program (EAP) makes low risk, affordable and customisable technologies available for Australian companies to trial and build upon, for use in potentially improving production efficiency and building new competitive advantages or markets. What makes the EAP program unique is its focus on providing Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies to deliver production efficiency enhancements for businesses in a range of industries.

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Advancing Supply Chain Integrity in Australian Agriculture workshop

To boost the value of Australia’s exports and build on our brand, we need to validate the quality, safety and provenance of our products. Using the red meat sector as a use case, CSIRO is developing technologies that can validate claims about the origin of a product, its authenticity and adherence to ethical production practices,...

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Data61’s 2020 Year in Review highlights

As we mark our fifth year, we take a look back at some of this year’s highlights, including our teams’ innovative COVID work, the research we’ve commercialised - such as the NSW Digital Twin and Wildcat robotic mapping technology – our joint report with Austrade on the future of global trade and investment, our numerous award wins and research paper acceptances, and finally, the appointment of Data61’s new Director, Jon Whittle.

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Exploring QLD caves autonomously with our robot fleet

While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subt-T Challenge might be postponed because of COVID-19, CSIRO’s Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group undertook a home-grown challenge of their own at the Chillagoe-Mungana Caves in North Queensland recently.

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NSW Digital Twin to inform emergency responders this bushfire season

Over 2,400 homes destroyed, roughly $1 billion in infrastructure damage, 5.4 million hectares burned and the loss of 26 lives – the Black Summer bushfires in NSW were one of the worst disasters the state had ever experienced. The NSW Independent Bushfire Enquiry identified the loss of connectivity as a reoccurring issue throughout the season,...

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Advanced data analytics ensuring employees receive the correct pay

Advanced data analytics will now ensure Australian workers are paid correctly after the launch of PaidRight, a spinout of CSIRO’s Data61 and PwC. PaidRight’s platform uses advanced data analytics to enable employers to review the accuracy of their payroll.

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How machine learning is detecting seizures in people with traumatic brain injuries

By applying sensors, machine learning and energy harvesting technology, researchers at CSIRO, CSIRO’s Data61 and Australian medical device company Anatomics could prevent the development of seizure disorders in patients that have undergone decompressive surgery (craniectomy) through the creation of a data-driven and highly personalised treatment plan. 

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Q&A with the team behind the award-winning PaintCloud

The pandemic has reinforced the critical need for businesses to enable their employees to work efficiently outside of the conventional office. While the threat of COVID-19 has abated in Australia, restrictions on gatherings and interstate travel remain, challenges businesses nation-wide must overcome to resume near, or new, normal operations. A decade’s worth of digital transformation...
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This AI-powered platform can identify insect and snake species from photo

‘Is it venomous?’ is arguably one of the most common questions asked in Australia, home to 170 species of snakes and 2,000 species of spider. Parents of two and with regularly visiting British relatives, Nic and Murray Scarce know the benefit of being able to accurately identify some of Australia’s most notorious wildlife. “During one...

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Q&A with Professor Jon Whittle, the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61

Professor Jon Whittle has been announced as the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61 after a competitive international search. Professor Whittle is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and human-computer interaction, with a particular interest in IT for social good, AI research in health sciences and sustainable development. He will begin his leadership of Data61 on...

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AI + Indigenous Knowledge a powerful tool posing critical questions

In Kakadu National Park, an invasive weed is choking precious wetlands. Para grass is displacing native plants and reducing habitats for magpie geese, a population considered to be a key indicator of ‘healthy country’ by traditional owners. It’s hard for local park rangers to monitor and manage this weed in this vast landscape – and...

Data61 Mixed Reality Lab

A ‘technology game-changer’ for manufacturing and multiple other industries, the newly launched Mixed Reality Lab in Melbourne will enable organisations to create ‘digital twins’, or computer-generated copies, of real-world objects.

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