Robotics

Our award-winning Multi-Robot Navigation Stack

Designed in response to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, the Navigation Stack enables a robotic team to navigate challenging environments outside of communications range.

Melanie McGrath: Unpacking trust in human-AI teams

An expert in social psychology, Melanie McGrath has spent her career researching what makes humans tick and exploring how we interact, behave in groups and relate to others. Now working with the Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) and Responsible Innovation FSPs, she's turned her attention to the way humans relate to a different kind of other: AI.

The latest award-winning science at CSIRO’s Data61

Discover the innovation and impactfulness that sets these award winners apart and join us in congratulating the teams behind them.

A 300-tonne challenge for the AI industry

700,000 towels and sheets a week — that’s the 300-tonne challenge that Queensland’s Consolidated Linen Services (CLS) works through to […]

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Amelia Luu

A Robotics Field Engineer at CSIRO’s Data61, Amelia Luu is applying her skills and experience to help revolutionise Australian industries. A member of the Wildcat software team, Amelia considers collaborating with partners to integrate cutting-edge tech as one of her favourite parts of the job.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Ms Lauren Hanson

A Mechanical Engineer in the Advanced Mechatronics System Team within the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO's Data61, Ms Lauren Hanson has helped create world-class communications nodes for the DARPA Subt team and is currently designing dynamic tracked robots.

How team CSIRO’s Data61 won silver at the ‘Robot Olympics’

Here, Team Leader of team CSIRO’s Data61 and Group Leader of Data61’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group Dr Navinda Kottege shares a behind-the-scenes look at the techniques, strategies, and technology the team employed during the Challenge.

A BIA5 Ozbot outfitted with technology designed by CSIRO's Data61

Team CSIRO’s Data61 representing Australia in ‘robot Olympics’

Team CSIRO’s Data61 will represent Australia – and the Southern Hemisphere –in the ‘robot Olympics’ this month in the United States. Experts from around the world have spent the past three years pushing the boundaries of autonomous robotic technology to map, navigate and search environments as part of the Subterranean Challenge, run by the US  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Gizmo gives space scientists a leg up at new exhibition

Modelled off insects like ants and cockroaches, our hexapods are designed to go where no robot or human can easily […]

This shape-changing robot can adapt to any outdoor environment

Described as the ‘Swiss army knife’ of robots, DyRET (Dynamic Robot for Embodied Testing) is thought to be the first quadruped that can morphologically adapt its structure insitu to efficiently traverse different outdoor environments. This novel capability could make DyRET a crucial tool in future search and rescue, monitoring and exploratory missions.