The QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR) is based in Brisbane at QUT’s Gardens Point campus, close to the Botanical gardens, and accessible by public transport trains, buses and ferries.
As of 2020:
- QUT was named Australia’s best university 50 years or younger in the Times Higher Education University Rankings, coming in at 14th internationally, up from 24 in 2019.
- The QS 2021 World University Rankings Top 50 Under 50 now has QUT ranked 16, up from 19 last year.
- The 2021 QS World University Rankings, QUT sits in the top 19 per cent of institutions globally.
- QUT has also been named one of Australia’s most innovative universities in the Educator Higher Education’s inaugural list for demonstrating innovation and creativity.
Brisbane is a very pleasant place to live. It’s a city of 2.2M (Australia’s third largest), with outstanding beaches one hour’s drive north (Sunshine Coast) or south (Gold Coast aka Surfer’s Paradise).
There are lots of parks and gardens and you can get around by bus, train and high-speed ferries. On the tech side there is a strong startup culture and a significant group of companies involved in robotics making Brisbane Australia’s robotics hub and supporting Australia’s first robotics cluster – the Queensland Robotics cluster.
The Brisbane River winds its way though the city. The climate is sub-tropical with daily temperatures ranging from 20-30C (summer, 70-90F) and 10-20C (winter, 50-70F). We don’t do snow, ice storms or tornados (which sometimes makes gathering interesting vision-based datasets challenging!).