By Peter Roberts The RAAF and UNSW Canberra’s M2 satellite mission into low Earth orbit (LEO), reported elsewhere today by @AuManufacturing, is an exciting return to space by Australian space scientists. But it is not only defence and academic scientists that are demonstrating new technological capabilities as Australia re-enters the space domain it all but…
University of Sydney spinout business Gelion will have its zinc bromide batteries made at Battery Energy’s Fairfield, western Sydney factory. “We are excited to work with Battery Energy. Its 30 years’ experience delivering customer-focused power solutions in tough environments will be invaluable [in] helping us deploy our technology in our own backyard,” said Gelion CEO…
An Australian team has reached the grand final of a global challenge run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test autonomous robotic technology to map, navigate and search environments. Known as the Subterranean challenge, teams have been eliminated from competition in previous years, leaving only eight to contest the 2021 grand…
Additive manufacturing technology group SPEE3D has announced a breakthrough process enabling it to offer for the first time 3D printed stainless-steel parts and components. With funding support from energy and resources sector industry growth centre National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), SPEE3D can now print corrosion resistant, stainless-steel components on site and in remote locations, including…
Additive manufacturing technology group AML3D today reported ‘ongoing success of its industry scale welding trials using innovative new (aluminium) alloy compositions’. The company said its project with Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials developing new high strength aluminium-scandium welding wire for use in its wire arc additive manufacturing (WAM) process was progressing strongly. According to…
Opportunities to foster growth in Australia’s regenerative medicine industry will be made clearer after the release of two research reports by the RM Catalyst consortium today, detailing the current state of manufacturing and clinical trials.
Ten projects featuring University of NSW researchers, including on recycling science, solar photovoltaics, and 3D bioprinting. have made the finals of the high-profile Eureka Prizes this year
Sydney-based quantum technology startup Q-CTRL has named Dr Tom Stace as its new Principal Quantum Control Engineer. Stace comes from University of Queensland, where he was most recently Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS.) “It is exciting to join a team with a global vision to develop new…
An Australian-made satellite was launched into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday. CUAVA-1 is the lead project of the University of Sydney-led ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles and their applications (CUAVA.) The three kilogram satellite travelling on a SpaceX rocket contains four operating research instruments which will be used…
Medical wearables device developer Nutromics has raised $5.7 million in new funding to further development of its wearable patch device which continuously monitors key dietary biomarkers, helping patients ensure they receive the correct dosage of the common life-saving antibiotic called vancomycin. Typically 60 per cent of administered doses of vancomycin are not in the therapeutic…
