Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology has been around for decades, used in the geosciences for surveying and mapping, in police radar to check if you’re speeding, and more...
InnovationAus Awards
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Former CSIRO chair David Thodey says the growth and development of Australia’s innovation ecosystem since 2015 had been exciting – remarkable even – but a lack of clarity in...
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Silvia Pfeiffer has always been on the leading edge of video innovation and research. In 1999, she was awarded a PhD in computer science from the University of Mannheim...
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Deep in an underground mine the tunnel roof looms high above the heads of the miners and mechanics and electricians as they go about their day’s work under strings...
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Electric car and renewable energy giant Tesla’s global chair Robyn Denholm will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, at a black-tie discotheque-themed gala...
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When one conjures up the image of sheep eating seaweed, it could almost be comical – a scene out of popular kid’s show, Shaun the Sheep; the protagonist diving...
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Food is emotional. It’s grandma’s fresh-baked shortbread, a piping hot bowl of juk when you have a cold; it’s buttered popcorn at the movies, ice-cold sashimi on your first...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, or so the saying goes. Although chief executive and founder of GERMii, Harold Van Haltren, would be quick to point out that it’s not...
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Universally known as JP, John-Paul Syriatowicz is the co-founder and chairman of Sydney-based enterprise digital experience platform and transformation delivery specialists Squiz. Squiz began life more than 20 years...
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Waving gently in the warming summer tides, eight to ten meters below the surface of the ocean, a vociferous pest species of leathery brown seaweed is preparing to release...
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It’s 7am as six rotor blades begin to whir on top of an agricultural drone the size of a dinner table. The machine hovers, spraying arms crouched around the...
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It is hard to imagine that scientists only finished mapping the human genome in 2003. In less than two decades we have gone from translating that very first human...
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Getting a new hardware business off the ground is notoriously the ‘boss level’ of startup ventures; the barriers to entry and the sheer capital outlay required to launch a...
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We take a look at Sleeptite, a contender in the Medtech and Biotechnology category of the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, as well as a People's Choice Award finalist.