In episode 19 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Dr Marc Carmichael, a Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator at the Australian Cobotics Centre.
The episode was recorded on the second day of the Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of.
Carmichael’s work focusses on collaborative robotics, a genre of automation he believes is a good match for Australia’s SME-heavy manufacturing community, though something it has been slow to adopt so far.
He discusses the application of collaborative robotics for abrasive blasting – work which saw him named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers by Engineers Australia in 2018 – as well as development of a new micro-credential through the New Education and Training Model (NETM.)
Episode guide
0:30 – Research background.
1:20 – Robots for abrasive blasting. An example of supplementing rather than replacing workers.
3:33 – The Australian Cobotics Centre.
4:25 – Automation for short-run, high-value manufacturing.
6:26 – The new micro-credential in cobots and what students learn during its 40 hours.
Relevant links
Australian Cobotics Centre
https://www.australiancobotics.org/
Profile piece at UTS website
https://www.uts.edu.au/study/engineering/student-profiles/meet-our-engineering-postgrads/innovative-solutions
Interview in create
https://createdigital.org.au/collaborative-robots-people-partnership/
Article in @AuManufacturing by Carmichael and Sara Wilkinson about their "Wallbot" project
https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/robotics-adoption-matters-removing-danger-and-cost-from-green-infrastructure-maintenance
