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1st place at IROS Congratulations to Dr. Minas Liarokapis and his team of students on winning the Manufacturing track in the Grasping and Manipulation Challenge of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The award is 3000 USD for...

Are we future ready for Robotics? CARES at the Future Ready Summit 2019 Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED), recently undertook research to understand the future of work for Auckland, and on the 26th June, research findings, expertise and insight...

Outstanding Robotics research career: Professor Bruce MacDonald Vice-Chancellor Commercialisation Medal https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2019/05/08/university-awards-celebrate-excellence-at-all-stages-of-research.html Congratulations to Bruce for being awarded this...

Academic success: New Chair in Ageing Well and New Professors Ngaire Kerse, Population Health – appointed the inaugural Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well. Our very own CARES researcher Professor Ngaire Kerse has just been appointed the inaugural Joyce Cook Chair in...

Doctoral scholarships in Robotics and Human Assistance Decision Automation for Orchards and Vineyards is an exciting new research programme funded by the NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. This research programme is a partnership between the...

2018 Robot Soccer and Robot Olympiad Congratulations once again to Dr. Ho Seok Ahn and his team of helpers who organized the 2018 Robot Soccer and Robot Olympiad. These annual events attract students from all over New Zealand, and range from primary school aged...

Emotional Speech Corpus for Human Robot Interaction Our CARES PhD student Jesin James recently presented at two international conferences IEEE RO-MAN 2018 and Interspeech 2018. Jesin has been working on emotions in speech, with part of her research funded by CARES...

Robots to train vineyard and orchard workers to do a better job Our new MBIE funded project “Data informed decision making and automation in orchards and vineyards” is gaining significant interest and features in Stuff this week. “Ministry of Business, Innovation and...

2018 MBIE Endeavour Research Programmes – Funding Success!   The CARES team led by Professor Bruce MacDonald and associate investigators from University of Auckland, Lincoln Agritech, University of Waikato, University of Canterbury, Plant and Food Research and...

Building a collaboration with Centre for Autonomous Systems This week CARES hosted a workshop with six academics from the Centre for Autonomous Systems from the University of Technology Sydney. We discussed our research interests and found many common themes and...