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Maaratech newsletter – Issue 2 – December 2020

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Maaratech newsletter – Issue 2 – December 2020

After a very unusual year, the whole team have been very busy ensuring that our work can still go ahead as planned. Read all about it in December’s newsletter here!

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New Dexterity wins international prize at Hackaday

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New Dexterity wins international prize at Hackaday

The New Dexterity Group won the Assistive Devices open challenge of the 2020 Hackaday Prize with their wearable, soft robotic exoskeleton gloves! The Hackaday Prize is an international competition organized by SupplyFrame and sponsored by many organizations, companies, and non-profits.

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Robotics to help with fruit picker shortage

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Robotics to help with fruit picker shortage

Professor Bruce MacDonald talks to RNZ around improved technologies to help solve the seasonal worker shortage in NZ’s horticultural sector. Listen to the episode of RNZ podcast: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/podcast-card/fruit-picking-squeeze  

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EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award 2020 – short listed paper

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EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award 2020 – short listed paper

Congratulations to our Multipurpose Orchard Robotics Team! Our recent paper: Robotic kiwifruit harvesting using machine vision, convolutional neural networks, and robotic arms, (submitted to Biosystems Engineering) has been shortlisted for consideration for a EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award 2020. The Awards

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Enginuity Day 2020 – inspiring our future women engineers!

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Enginuity Day 2020 – inspiring our future women engineers!

Enginuity Day, an annual event hosted by the Faculty of Engineering celebrates, motivates, and inspires our future women engineers. Girls from high school were invited to hear about, learn, and try engineering activities. Our robotics team led by Henry Williams,

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A fruitful partnership with Robotics Plus

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A fruitful partnership with Robotics Plus

Over the last 6+ years, CARES has partnered with Robotics Plus to develop robotics technologies for orchards. Our collaboration on project Multipurpose Orchard Robotics, developed new orchard automation technology for pollination and harvesting services internationally using a new multi-purpose autonomous

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Meet a roboticist: Mahla Nejati, PhD student

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Meet a roboticist: Mahla Nejati, PhD student

Meet Mahla Nejati, PhD student.  “My most memorable moment: seeing the robot pick a kiwifruit for the first time” Multipurpose Orchard Robotics was an awesome project that developed new orchard automation technology for pollination and harvesting of fruit such as

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Our NZ Kiwifruit picking robot features on BBC

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Our NZ Kiwifruit picking robot features on BBC
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Meet a roboticist: Parag Tarwadi, PhD student

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Meet a roboticist: Parag Tarwadi, PhD student

Meet Parag Tarwadi, PhD student How would you describe your project?  My research is to develop a reliable, real-time, and inexpensive navigation system for scanning a ship hull with the unwanted biofouling. The underwater robot will autonomously navigate around the

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MaaraTech: authentic robotics co-design

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MaaraTech: authentic robotics co-design
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  • Maaratech newsletter – Issue 2 – December 2020
  • New Dexterity wins international prize at Hackaday
  • Robotics to help with fruit picker shortage
  • EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award 2020 – short listed paper
  • Enginuity Day 2020 – inspiring our future women engineers!
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