Melbourne-based biotech firm PolyActiva, which has spent 15 years developing an eye-implant technology to treat glaucoma, has won a $27 million investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation as...
Advanced Manufacturing
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The NSW government has signed an agreement with Japanese electronics company Omron to work with the state’s newest manufacturing incubator, the Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility (AMRF). Under the Memorandum...
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Nvidia beat quarterly sales expectations as customers stockpiled its AI chips before fresh US curbs on China exports took effect, but the same restrictions will slice off US$8 billion...
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A critical minerals commercialisation hub first promised for Queensland more than two years ago has taken a big step forward, with construction now underway on the first-of-its-kind facility. Deputy...
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Australian autonomous systems outfit Advanced Navigation has successfully demonstrated a new hybrid system for super accurate navigation in GPS-denied environments. The company says the demonstration proves that its new...
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A company that fabricates solar panels in Adelaide, folds them into shipping containers and then deploys them at solar farms 10 times faster than traditional installations will kick off...
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Australia’s newly sworn-in Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres will need to hit the ground running in the portfolio, with new data showing the manufacturing sector fell into...
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Silicon quantum startup Diraq is joining the Illinois government’s push to develop new quantum technologies using state-of-the-art facilities in Chicago, giving the Sydney company its third US base and...
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Fishermans Bend, Victoria’s long-awaited innovation precinct, has taken its first step towards becoming reality, with construction starting four years after the Victorian government’s initial tender. Winslow Infrastructure has been...
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One of the world’s largest cryoplants ever commissioned for a quantum computer will be built and tested offshore before being installed at PsiQuantum’s mammoth manufacturing facility in Brisbane later...
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The parent company of Sydney manufacturer Rode Microphones, The Freedman Group, has acquired Lectrosonics, a 54-year-old US maker of high-end wireless audio equipment, making it one of the largest...
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AI-powered defence startup Anduril Industries on Monday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ireland-based tactical communications systems maker Klas. Anduril, along with software maker Palantir...
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We are inside the last few days of a five-week federal election campaign and there’s been nary a mention of one of the country’s highest priority sectors – medical...
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IBM will invest US$150 billion (A$233 billion)in the US including on facilities for quantum computer production over the next five years, the latest American technology company to back the...