By John Blaxland, Australian National University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to visit Washington in the next two weeks to announce the long-awaited roadmap for the AUKUS submarine agreement alongside UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden. So, what’s involved, what’s at stake, and what are the challenges? Can Albanese balance…
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Nominations open for Victorian Manufacturing Awards Nominations opened on Monday for the 21st Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards. The state-based award program was opened by minister for manufacturing sovereignty Ben Carroll, who said “The awards recognise our top manufacturers that are leading from the front – cementing our status as Australia’s manufacturing state.” This year there…
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A new Monash University-led paper in the journal of the US Army War College suggests that artificial intelligence-led soldiers might be more than a match for human-controlled robots. A statement from Monash on Tuesday explained that the research showed AIs were better at the required cognitive tasks relevant to the battlefield than robots were at…
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Queensland headquartered engineering services and solutions company Global Road Technology’s (GRT) innovative approach to dust control is being backed by the Queensland Government’s Ignite Ideas Funds. GRT recently received $100,000 in the Round 9 Ignite Ideas Funding through the Advance Queensland innovation initiative designed to support commercialisation projects that will benefit the economyinto the future.…
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On Monday @AuManufacturing officially launched our search to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers with a live webinar featuring UTS, Sydney Emeritus Professor Roy Green. Here, Green identifies a core issue – the absence of a national, coherent and coordinated industry policy. Question? You often make the point that we need to develop and deploy…
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Cancer test developer Rhythm Biosciences’ shares plunged on the ASX yesterday when the company withdrew an application for registration with the Therapeutic Goods Administration of its ColoSTAT test for colorectal cancer. The company’s shares closed down 38 percent to 36.5 cents last night after the company announced its response to its application for an Australian…
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Queensland’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing or ARM Hub has cemented its place as a not for profit robotics, AI and design for manufacture industry hub. Already at the forefront of industrial transformation in the state, CEO Cori Stewart predicts 2023 will be a defining year for the centre. The coming year will be one of…
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By Salman Shooshtarian, RMIT University and Tayyab Maqsood, RMIT University At Fremantle Prison in the 1850s, when metal was scarce, the prison gate and handrails were made from iron recovered from sunken ships. As I toured the prison recently, I reflected on how similar the situation was when COVID-19 disrupted building supply chains across Australia.…
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Applications opened on Monday for a federal government program offering grants worth $25,000 to small and medium enterprises, assisting them to minimise energy use. The Energy Efficiency Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Round 1 assists SMEs “replace or upgrade existing equipment to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs”. It is open to companies…
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The department of defence announced on Monday that it has signed new contracts with the University of South Australia and Deakin University, cumulatively worth $1.746 million, for R&D focussed on using artificial intelligence to process noisy and dynamic data into information. The funding is through the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) and the projects are…
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