2021 updates
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....
Maaratech newsletter – Issue 3 – March 2021
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...
New Zealand success at International Robot Olympiad 2020
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...
Virtual reality viticulture
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...
Congratulations Dr Nejati!
Hot off the press: Mahla Nejati has successfully completed her PhD oral defence for her project “Developing the vision system of an orchard robot“. Congratulations Dr Nejati! You can read more about Mahla’s PhD work in this article. Mahla will...
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...