QCAT robotics opportunities

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• #8: We have a strong track record of commercial success. Our work has impacted the daily lives of Australians and those around the world. These are some of our top inventions.
• #9: At CSIRO we take the issue of delivering positive impact at ‘scale’ seriously, and that focus now sees more than 50% of our total research effort conducted by assembling our researchers, others in key University partnerships along with industry, community and government stakeholders, into large-scale, cross-cutting research programs we call National Research Flagships. We currently lead 11 Flagships with our last two having come on board in June 2012 (Biosecurity, Digital Productivity). As a whole, our Flagship program is one of the largest scientific research programs ever undertaken in Australian. All of these Flagships are aimed at addressing one or more of the major innovation challenges facing Australia. They are goal driven, time bound and actively managed research programs. Fast failure and options approaches to research help ensure the focus is as much on the pathway to impact as it is on research outcomes. Engagement with end users and markets is central to this approach and if we don’t have a clear view of the end in mind, then we don’t keep doing the research. Stopping and understanding the pathway to impact is fundamental to the Flagship approach as it will most likely change the research or the way we need to do it. Biosecurity Flagship overview (June 2012) Goal: Support of Australia’s social, environmental and economic wellbeing by reducing the incidence of pest and disease incursions ($7B) and increasing the effectiveness of incursion mitigation and eradication responses ($14B) by 2042. Climate Adaptation Flagship overview Enabling Australia to adapt more effectively to the impacts of climate change and variability and informing national planning, regulation and investment decisions Goal: Equip Australia with practical and effective adaptation options to climate change and variability and in doing so create $3 billion per annum in net benefits by 2030 Digital Productivity and Services Flagship overview (June 2012) Grow productivity in Australia through frontier services innovation and unlocking the value of broadband communications. By 2025, the Flagship will create $4 billion in added value per annum for the Australian economy by developing and delivering more efficient and innovative services that improve citizen wellbeing and prosperity Energy Transformed Flagship overview The Energy Transformed Flagship is developing clean affordable energy solutions and transport technologies for a sustainable future Goal: To improve the affordability, reliability and grid integration of renewable energy technologies; to provide the transport sector with sustainable fuels and energy solutions; and to improve the way Australia uses energy at home Food Futures Flagship overview The Food Futures Flagship aims to transform Australia's international competitiveness in the agrifood sector through the application of frontier technologies to high potential industries. By applying frontier technologies to high-potential industries, the Flagship's goal is to add A$3 billion annually of value to the Australian agrifood sector. The Flagship’s research is focused on the three main areas of future grains, Australian seafood and beef and quality biosensors Goal: To transform the international competitiveness and add A$3 billion annually to the Australian agrifood sector by the application of frontier technologies to high-potential industries Future Manufacturing Flagship overview The Future Manufacturing Flagship aims to lead the development of cleaner advanced materials and manufacturing technologies to enable manufacturing companies to grow Australia’s future productivity and prosperity Goal: To improve the flexibility and efficiency of production through new enabling technologies; to reduce energy consumption and lower emissions – towards zero-waste manufacturing; to help manufacturers create wealth from new products and services in new markets Minerals Down Under Flagship overview The Minerals Down Under Flagship is planning to help transform the Australian minerals industry with revolutionary new technologies and ideas to solve technical challenges that will be associated with Australian mining operations in the future Goal: To assist the Australian minerals industry to exploit new resources with an in-situ value of A$1 trillion by the year 2030, and more than double the associated services and technology sector to A$10 billion per year by 2015 Preventative Health Flagship overview Preventative Health Flagship is working to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians through research into prevention and early detection of common chronic diseases Goal: To improve the health and wellbeing of Australians and save $2 billion in annual direct health costs by 2020 through the prevention and early detection of chronic diseases Sustainable Agriculture Flagship overview The Sustainable Agriculture Flagship is focussed on reducing the carbon footprint of Australia’s land use whilst achieving the productivity gains needed for prosperous agricultural and forest industries and global food security Goal: To secure Australian agricultural and forest industries by increasing productivity by 50% and reducing net carbon emissions per unit of food and fibre by at least 50% between now and 2030 Water for a Healthy Country Flagship overview The Water for a Healthy Country Flagship is a national research program addressing one of Australia’s most pressing natural resource issues – sustainable management of our water resources. Goal: To provide Australia with solutions for water resource management, creating economic gains of AU$3 billion by 2030, while protecting or restoring our major water ecosystems Wealth from Oceans Flagship overview The Wealth from Oceans Flagship, together with its research partners, is providing Australia with a key capacity to discover, protect and realise the benefits of our ocean territories. Goal: To position Australia by 2020 as an international benchmark in the delivery of economic, social and environmental wealth based on leadership in understanding ocean systems and processes
• #10: The 4th Industrial revolution is enabled by the cyber-physical systems (CPS). This figure show that CPS lies at the intersection of Robotics (Autonomous Systems), IoT (Distributes Sensing Systems) and AI (analytics, decision sciences). Click 1: A Cyber-Physical Systems lies at the intersection of three research domains: AI, Robotics and IoT, Click 2: Which all have an impact upon living organisms (us). Click 3: In this diagram, a robot can be split into three classes:   Smart robots - which has a set of preprogramed behaviours,  Embodied AI - in which the robots can learn to change their behaviour; and  Drone - in which the change in behaviour is controlled by a human.   Likewise, an IoT system can split into three:  Traditional sensor networks with fixed behaviours Emdedded AI - where the intelligence (new learnt behaviour) is distributed through the network (some times called the FoG), and Wearable - where humans (or animals) form part of the sensor network.  Click 4: It is the intersection of these domains that creates a CPS Click 5: The role of Life is to provide the social/emotional content of intent and value. Click 6: The CPS is supported by a number of components
• #12: The infrared is an image of two computer monitors.
• #13: The infrared is an image of two computer monitors.
• #16: Advanced Manufacturing A Roadmap for unlocking future growth opportunities for Australia NOVEMBER 2016
• #17: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING A NEW DEFINITION FOR A NEW ERA 2017 Advanced manufacturing is currently defined by the Australian Government as “any manufacturing process that takes advantage of high-technology or knowledge-intensive inputs as an integral part of its manufacturing process”
• #18: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING GROWTH CENTRE SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2017 TAKING AUSTRALIAN INGENUITY TO THE WORLD
• #19: Advanced Manufacturing A Roadmap for unlocking future growth opportunities for Australia NOVEMBER 2016
• #20: Advanced Manufacturing A Roadmap for unlocking future growth opportunities for Australia NOVEMBER 2016
• #21: Advanced Manufacturing A Roadmap for unlocking future growth opportunities for Australia NOVEMBER 2016
• #22: What is the point of stem?
• #23: https://www.standards.org.au/getmedia/29653164-cd4d-43f0-9afc-e8db58710f2e/Industry-4-0-Recommendations-Report.pdf.aspx
• #24: If country A employs most of its workforce on mining and agriculture, while country B on engineering and robotics, it is clear that country B has substantial more efficiency, therefore increased GDP. Country B has two notable advantages. Firstly, its workforce will produce machinery to automate production (which will directly increase output). Secondly, with the same workforce size, workers from country B have more free time to further improve their skills.  AI: The Wealth of Nations