Online retailer and Wesfarmers subsidiary Catch Group is set to deploy more than 100 autonomous mobile robots from Körber Supply Chain at its distribution centre in Truganina, Victoria. Körber Supply Chain (formerly Cohesio Group) says this will be the largest deployment of autonomous mobile robots for an e-commerce marketplace in Australia and New Zealand. Deployment […]
WEF checks out Queensland’s industry 4.0 initiative
World Economic Forum (WEF) representatives have visited the site for what the Queensland Government says will be Australia’s first Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub, in Brisbane. The ARM Hub is billed as an $18 million advanced manufacturing initiative being built by a partnership comprising the Queensland Government, Queensland University of Technology, the Urban Art […]
Sydney University startup looks to automate farming
A new startup spun out of the University of Sydney is looking to capitalise on a growing workforce shortage in agriculture, worldwide. Put “aging agricultural workforce” into a Google search and you will come up with no end of ominous headlines, such as this one: “Farming on the verge of a workforce crisis”, from Deloitte […]
Beware of Industry 5.0
I was asked recently if I would like to participate in a “discussion on innovation beyond Industry 4.0” in which I would be asked “to draw a picture of a next revolution such as industry 5.0.” I’d never heard of Industry 5.0. As far as I knew, the next revolution in industry was industry 4.0, […]
