Technology

A new report from Australia's national science agency CSIRO and the Tech Council of Australia has shed light on the location of the country's burgeoning tech industry, bringing together extensive data from throughout the country to map and characterise the various digital tech clusters that are now developing.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation is slated to showcase its complete line of factory automation products, including its new 3D bin-picking robot, at the upcoming PACK EXPO 2023 to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Centre.

ASX-listed biotechnology company Anteris Technologies has announced the successful use of its DurAVR THV biomimetic valve in a valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure. 

A team of roboticists from the University of California, San Diego, recently announced a collaboration with researchers from the BASF corporation to create a device that can pick up, hold, and release objects as it comes off the 3D printer.

Semiconductor manufacturing company Archer Materials Limited has sent its newly developed next-generation biochip fabrication to a commercial foundry partner in the Netherlands for a whole wafer run validation. 

The US Army Corps of Engineers has granted a research team at Missouri S&T $1.4 million to create an artificial intelligence program that will choose the best locally accessible materials for 3D-printed concrete. 

Additive manufacturer 3D Systems has introduced three new materials – Accura AMX Tough FR V0 Black, Figure 4 Tough FR V0 Black, and Figure 4 JCAST-GRN 20 – to improve its stereolithography (SLA) and Figure 4 portfolios.

Australian space-services company Skykraft has executed a world-first testing of space-based VHF voice communications as part of its development of satellites to provide space-based aviation communications and surveillance services. 

For every 10 people that leave the manufacturing sector as machine operators, only one person comes in, according to Rapid Robotics CEO Jordan Kretchmer. 

In the future, homes, cars, and other gadgets might be powered by an experimental ‘proton battery’ developed by RMIT researchers without the environmental challenges associated with lithium-ion batteries' end-of-life.