PROFESSOR GORDON WYETH, QUT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACULTY EXECUTIVE DEAN: Here we are at the
International Conference for Robotics and
Automation for 2018.
Over 3000 delegates have travelled from all
around the world to be right here in Brisbane
and we are so proud to be one of the principal
sponsors.
Delighted to be standing here in the middle
of the QUT stand and I think what everyone
is noticing about QUT Robotics, is that this
is Robotics for the real world.
I don’t think you get much more real world
than a robot like this with genuine mud on
it’s tyres, genuine mud on it’s tyres!
This has come off working on a real farm to
come along and be apart of the show here in
the Brisbane Convention Centre today.
I guess one of the big issues that we have
in Queensland and in Australia at the moment,
is finding the labour that can pick our crops.
This is going to make huge difference to the
productivity of capsicum farming and of course
once you can do capsicums there’s all kinds
of fruit and veges you might be able to do.
This is what we call our COTSbot (Crown of
Thorns Starfish).
The idea of the COTSbot is that it can seek
out these pests that are destroying the Great
Barrier Reef.
COTSbot has a capability to autonomously navigate
through the reef, identify the crown of thorns
starfish and then to inject them with an environmentally
friendly solution that kills the crown of
thorns starfish but it's going to save the
reef.
That’s important, isn’t it Pepper?
We’re finding that Pepper can make a real
difference to the way that people interact
around delicate issues, if they need to talk
about their health issues - some people feel
more comfortable talking to a robot than they
do to a person.
Can we use Pepper to help people get healthier?
I think this is another great example of robotics
working in the real world in all kinds of
different ways, helping agriculture, helping
the environment and helping people as well
with this kind of robotic technology at QUT.
