Australia’s Sentient Vision Systems has partnered with US defence technology company Shield AI to offer AI-Enabled Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) capability to international defence forces. Sentient, which specialises in AI-enabled passive wide area search, and Shield plan to deliver their solution to the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Australian Defence Forces (ADF) Defence…
Altech receives commitments for another $2.5 million in investment Altech Batteries announced on Monday that it has received binding commitments for shortfall shares, following a non-renounceable entitlement offer, raising an additional $2,538,000 before costs. Total proceeds worth $15,838,208 have now been raised, including $3,000,000 from the recent placement, as well as the allocation of $12,838,208…
Sydney based space computing manufacturer Spiral Blue has announced a partnership with the University of Sydney for the ground-breaking TOLIMAN Space Telescope Mission – Australia’s largest space-based astronomical observatory. Now under construction, TOLIMAN is a 12.5cm space telescope that will be carried by a 16U CubeSat bus to a 550km sun-synchronous orbit when launched in…
Will artificial intelligence replace human beings? Could it turn against its creators? Does it represent a danger for the human race? By Patrice Caine. These are just some of the questions that have been stirring up public debate and the media since the mass deployment of generative AI tools and the sensationalist statements of a…
Funding of nearly $600,000 from the National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program has been awarded to Monash University-led research involving growing human brain cells onto silicon chips. A statement from Monash University on Friday describes the new research program – led by Associate Professor Adeel Razi from the Turner Institute for Brain and…
Australia’s Generative AI Opportunity, a report released by Microsoft and the Tech Council of Australia, claims that manufacturing is in the top four parts of the Australian economy to share in an economic boost estimated to be worth between $45 billion and $115 billion annually by 2030. Generative AI (GAI) is a term referring to…
Robotic and navigation technology manufacturer Advanced Navigation has announced the expansion of its Boreas digital fibre-optic gyroscope (DFOG) range aimed at navigation for autonomous systems, with the launch of the new A Series (pictured). The Boreas A90 and A70 are strategic-grade inertial measurement units (IMU) that deliver acceleration and orientation with superior accuracy, stability and…
Collaborative space research centre the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat) has launched a $7 million project to develop new autonomous spacecraft using artificial intelligence (AI). The three-year project, Spacecraft Autonomy and Onboard AI for Next Generation Space Systems, or SCARLET-α, aims to create a set of autonomous algorithms that will enable small and distributed spacecraft…