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Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are making new forms of teamwork - with automation, human-robot collaboration and machine-to-machine collaboration - the new frontier in the workforce of tomorrow.

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INNOVATION

Preventing catastrophic sewer pipe failure

In partnership with Sydney Water, UTS Robotics Institute researchers built an innovative remote-controlled robot to traverse the pipes beneath our feet and identify dangerous concrete corrosion.
Revolutionising bridge maintenance

NSW Roads and Maritime Services were looking for a safer solution to the dirty and dangerous work of maintaining steel bridges. UTS researchers delivered – in the form of an autonomous robot.

Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Your new workmate could be a robot

Collaborative robots might be small and lightweight, but thanks to a novel partnership between the UTS Robotics Institute and Nokia, their computational power could soon outstrip their size.

Join the cobot revolution
Underwater robots keeping it clean

A first-of-its-kind autonomous robot is able to clean and inspect underwater structures, allowing maintenance crew to work safely from above the waves.

At the UTS Robotics Institute, we undertake innovative and challenging research in robotics across four core focus research themes.
Sensing, perception and estimation
Using artificial intelligence and sensing technologies to move robots through complex and uncertain environments.
Robotic systems
Building complex robotic systems including biologically inspired robots, underwater robots, drones and soft-gripping robots.
Control, planning and coordination
Controlling robots with trajectory and path planning, multi robot coordination, and long term operation.
Human-robot interaction
Collaborating between people and robots including intention and behaviours, mission objective setting, physical interactions, and brain-robot interaction.
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