Announcements

A unique roadshow is set to tour across Aotearoa / New Zealand, featuring a life-size replica of NASA’s Opportunity rover, bringing space exploration closer to home. Accompanying the rover will be a NASA engineer who will share insights into the engineering marvels...

This year’s New Zealand Robot Olympiad was hosted at the Faculty of Engineering, with Dr Ho Seok Ahn as Chair, from July 9-19, where 250 school students from Year 1-13 were invited. Our future engineers enjoyed four individual games – line tracer, formula racing,...

We’ve had a busy few months, including publications, conferences, demos at New Zealand’s largest agricultural show and even television appearances! Professor Liz Broadbent was interviewed on Radio New Zealand around the dementia robots study which we ran....

The challenges of 2020 are not yet behind us, as a sudden Auckland lockdown forced a quick change of plan for our strategy meeting in Christchurch. However, this summer has been productive, and you can read all about it in our third newsletter...

Following lots of rescheduling in 2020, the New Zealand Robot Olympiad took place in December 2020, allowing teams to qualify for the International Robot Olympiad (IRO) which took place in January 2021. 50 students were selected to represent New Zealand at the...

The work of our Part IV student, Mitchell Faulconridge, (under supervision of Henry Williams) has been featured on Uniservices Insights. This is part of our Maaratech research programme, and Mitchell has been working on Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) tools to...