Advanced robotics and digital fabrication technologies provide a direct pathway from design to manufacturing. We create processes, approaches, tools and technologies for sustainable futures by linking design, manufacture and material use. We explore innovative design possibilities through cutting-edge experimental design projects and work hard to make sure that technology meets the needs of real people. Connecting to Industry 4.0, Collaborative Robotics and Open Innovation principles we explore advanced manufacturing strategies to benefit business and the environment. Our practical research has a direct impact on applied industry projects and is helping to transform Australian manufacturing.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Chief Investigators
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Assoc Prof Glenda Caldwell
Program Leader - Design Robotics and Digital Fabrication
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Assoc Prof Jared Donovan
Program Leader - Design Robotics and Digital Fabrication
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Dr Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira
Areas of interest: Design Robotics, Digital fabrication and manufacturing, parametric design, transdisciplinary design research, phenomenology of perception, multimodal spaces, pancomputational design strategies
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Assoc Prof Veronica Garcia Hansen
Program Leader - Emerging Technologies
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Assoc Prof Rafael Gomez
Areas of interest: Design Emotion, Emotional Experience, Wearable Tech, Emerging Tech, Health and Wellbeing
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Prof Greg Hearn
Areas of interest: Advanced Manufacturing Workforce, Workforce adoption of cobotics, Innovation policy, management and practice, Creative economy.
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Dr Dan Nyandega
Areas of Interest: Water sensitive cities and design: architecture, infrastructures, and landscapes; Rising water levels in low-lying coastal cities – sea level rise and flooding; Water and shoreline infrastructure futures; Public buildings and open spaces as decentralised water infrastructures; Emerging construction techniques, technologies, and materiality for future territories on and under water; Incremental adaption of highly modified lowlands (reclaimed land) in coastal cities to effects of rising water/sea levels.
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Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbruch
Program Leader - Emerging Technologies
Affiliate Investigators
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Natalie Haskell
Areas of interest: Industry 4.0, Digital fabrication, Digital making, Advanced Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Design Innovation, User Centered Design, Studio Learning, Interdisciplinary practice, Industrial Design, 3D and Product Design
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Dr Leo Rezayan
Areas of interest: Tangible Media, Embodied and Augmented Interaction, Physicalisation and Participatory Design
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Prof Jonathan Roberts
Areas of interest: Field robotics, medical robotics, performance robotics and design robotics
Postdoctorial Research Fellows
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Dr Yu Kao
Areas of interest: Interaction design, Research through Design, Design method, Creative placemaking