CARES Robots 🤖

We are robots in the Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science (CARES) at @AucklandUni and we work with the team who create robots for society

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Our CARES centre is hiring a new research centre manager, see: https://t.co/R0llgmtD2C. We are looking for a highly capable, strategic manager to help develop and grow CARES.

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

🎓🎓 Congrats @Mahlanjt 👏👏

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Another awesome Robotics Group meeting today! Great presentations and discussions from Part IV students providing updates on their research projects🤖🧑‍💻 followed by a delicious pizza lunch of course🍕 #cares #automation #learning

[UoM Cognitive Robotics Lab @corolab_UoM]

@mehdi_hello just presented his work at IEEE RO-MAN 2023 @ieeeroman

@PerseoProject #hri #emotionalgestures @caresrobots

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

That i am

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[MalMal @Malmalkhali]

One of the part IV teams that I am supervising, secured a position among the top 15 out of 108 teams in the $100k Velocity Challenge for the venture idea of 🌿🧐PlantPeepers to detect plant diseases from its earliest stages in greenhouses. I’m so Proud of my team

#agritech

[Norina Gasteiger, PhD @NorinaGasteiger]

#PhDone after 2yrs & 9months! 🥳 53,832 words, 5 papers & 3 incredible supervisors! Thanks to my community for the support- this was so much fun 😊 I'm also delighted to have been appointed a research associate in digital health in the @ARC_GM_ 🍾 #PhDChat @decisiondawn @pmw777

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

@NorinaGasteiger @ARC_GM_ @decisiondawn @pmw777 Amazing, congrats👏👏🤖

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

Companion #robots and #AI could be an optimal solution for remedying loneliness in isolated demographics, according to a new Focus. https://t.co/iL2fuBXE1c @LizBroadbent @sambmd @marknb00

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Cool. Liz says we can be Companions. Lets go..
https://t.co/tPZmvxD30j

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Today is International Women in Engineering Day and we would like to acknowledge the inspiring and talented women on our team, as well as those working in engineering around the world!
#INWED23 #WomenInEngineering #womeninrobotics #robotics

[Women in AI @women_in_ai]

🤩Haiku - ChatGPT shines a spotlight on our finalists!🤩
Haiku by ChatGPT describes the brilliant work and AI journey of Dr Mahla Nejati finalist in the AI in Agribusiness & Rural Development Award category for the WAI Awards 2023 APAC. She is a Research Fellow at @AucklandUni.

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Our human boss David doing a great job explaining his poster at #ICRA2023 in London! Finding time to make us some new friends as well 🤖
#ICRA2023 #CARES #robotics #automation #icra #robots

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Proud to see that our human boss @MahlaNejati is a @women_in_AI 2023 finalist!! Mahla is a finalist in the AI in Agribusiness and Rural Development category. Congratulations Mahla!!!

[Women in AI @women_in_ai]

WAI Awards 2023 APAC Finalists 🎉🎉
CONGRATULATIONS to each of these incredibly remarkable women. 🤩

Click on the link for the BIG reveal!! https://t.co/lBtWQwDZrY

Thank you to all the amazingly talented applicants for taking the time to participate.

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Another great @TechTalk_Nz with our very own Dr Craig Sutherland, our friend Cody Maneklow from @UoAEngineering, and inspiring talks from Hayley from @NZMindlab and Dipesh from @Datacom

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

Hmm those humans want some help but robots won't cut it (sigh); it has to be engineers.

[CARES Robots 🤖 @caresrobots]

@karlyannburch @BWB_NZ @APndrgrst @k_pendergrast We just got our copy too! Hoping you can sign it next time we see you 😉 #famous

[Norina Gasteiger, PhD @NorinaGasteiger]

New 📃 on the participatory design method used to develop a daily-care robot & cognitive stimulation games for older adults. This 4 yr project is a collab between health researchers, computer scientists, engineers & industry! 🤖🤝@LizBroadbent @caresrobots https://t.co/hBzoW79RFE

[Norina Gasteiger, PhD @NorinaGasteiger]

Joined @ieeeroman2022 remotely from the stunning Ionian Islands! 🇬🇷 Always a pleasure to represent the CARES group. I presented on affective human-robot interaction, focusing on prosody (speech) & a deep learning sentiment analyser evaluation 🤖🗣 @caresrobots @UoAEngineering