Our robots

Our talented researchers are committed to creating robots that can solve some the world’s biggest challenges. Every day we are developing new and more advanced technologies so robots can see, understand and adapt to complex, unstructured and dynamically challenging environments much like humans do.

We have created a vast array of robots including unmanned vehicles, underwater reef-protecting robots, vegetable-picking machines and robots that can operate in surgery.

If you are interested in visiting us and seeing our robots in action, please contact us.

ARCDP-2

Aerial drone for autonomous navigation, exploration, mapping, and target finding in GPS-denied environments such as below the forest canopy and indoor environments. It can be used in search and rescue operations and inspection of indoor environments.
Benchbot

Benchbot: Adept Patrolbot + onboard GPU - software that allows researchers to explore the performance of their novel research in photorealistic 3D simulation and on real robot platforms, with only a few lines of code
Harvey

Harvey, the robotic capsicum harvester, is an agriculture robot prototype designed to robotically identify and harvest capsicums. Harvey’s robotic arm has a camera and a unique cutting tool attached. Using data from the camera, the robot creates a 3D model of each fruit and its surroundings, and then plans and controls the robotic arm and cutting tool as it locates and detaches the fruit.
ARCDP-1

Aerial drone for autonomous navigation, exploration, mapping, and target finding in GPS-denied environments such as below the forest canopy and indoor environments. It can be used in search and rescue operations and inspection of indoor environments.
RangerBot

RangerBot significantly extends the capabilities of its predecessor, the COTSbot, and exploits real-time on-board vision for navigation, obstacle detection and management tasks. Its unique design and intuitive user interface provides coral reef managers, researchers, and community groups with a targeted, affordable and reconfigurable solution for upscaling monitoring and managing reef ecosystems worldwide.
ARCDP-3

Aerial drone for autonomous navigation, exploration, mapping, and target finding in GPS-denied environments such as below the forest canopy and indoor environments. It can be used in search and rescue operations and inspection of indoor environments.
Cartman

Cartman is a Cartesian robot that won the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge in Japan. It can move along three axes at right angles to each other, like a gantry crane, and features a rotating gripper that allows it to pick up items using either suction or a simple two-finger grip.
Agbot II

AgBot II is equipped with cameras, sensors and software and is designed to work in autonomous groups to navigate, detect and classify weeds and manage them either chemically or mechanically as well as apply fertilizer for site specific crop management. It was designed so it can be transported as a flat pack and assembled like Ikea furniture and carries 200 litres of herbicide as well as mechanical hoes.
Pepper

Social robots: SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot & Mobile manipulation platform (Omron LD60 + Franka-Emika Panda)
LarvalBot

Autonomous underwater robot adapted from RangerBot
Frontier drone

UAVs employed to enable research in spatial ecology, GPS denied environments, air quality sampling, path planning and navigation
RAVEN-II with multiple SnakeBots

Endoscopic surgery robot: Applied Dexterity Raven.
Carlie

Carlie is a scaled down version of a full-size autonomous car, with a range of camera sensors and on-board computer capability. Four of these mobile robotic platforms were created and are used for research, engagement and outreach purposes.
Franka-Emika Panda Manipulation Arm

The Panda robot gripper is capable of exerting a continuous gasping force of 70 N (and a maximum force of 140 N) and can lift up to 3 kg. The maximum width of the open gripper is 80 mm. Which allows this FRANKA EMIKA robotic arm to lift a wide variety of objects.
SnakeBot

A world-first, Snakebot has seen surgeons and roboticists join forces to explore how autonomous and semi-autonomous robots could be used in surgery, using keyhole surgery in the knee as a way to explore the technology. Snakebot has the potential to revolutionise surgery and promises enormous benefit to the developing world where there is a shortage of surgeons trained in specialised procedures.

ARCDP-2