Peter Roberts

Adelaide

Editor and Co-Founder at @AuManufacturing

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Australian businesses boost AI adoption by 5 per cent

3 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

More Australian businesses are embracing artificial intelligence to enhance productivity, with 41 per cent of small and medium enterprises now adopting the technology. Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres (pictured) released the latest AI Adoption Tracker data on Tuesday, showing a 5 per cent increase in SME adoption from the previous quarter. The interactive data platform surveys more than 400 Australian businesses monthly to track how they use AI and its impact on operations.
ClearVue subsidiary lands first commercial greenhouse contract

3 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

ClearVue Technologies subsidiary OptiCrop has secured its first commercial project worth approximately $80,000 for ground-source heat exchange technology at a greenhouse installation. The ASX-listed company announced on Wednesday that OptiCrop will provide its proprietary cooling solution for a one-acre greenhouse being built by a global irrigation and greenhouse provider.
Industry calls for heat pump rebate pause over safety concerns

3 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

The air conditioning and refrigeration industry has called for government heat pump rebate schemes to be suspended until safety and performance standards are implemented. The Australian Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturers Association warned on Monday that New South Wales and Victorian rebate programs are plagued by safety risks, poor performance and fraud.
WA commits $130,000 to boost biomedical industry skills

3 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

The Cook Government has announced $130,000 in funding for two new grant rounds aimed at developing Western Australia’s health and medical life sciences sector. Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson (pictured) said on Monday the funding would support the Accelerator Program Access Grants and Entrepreneur in Residence scheme, following successful first rounds.
Battery automation business Amber raises $45 million to support global expansion

3 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Peter Roberts

Energy technology company Amber has announced a $45 million funding round, led by UK/European fund ETF Partners, which it says will fund the expansion of its battery and EV automation technology globally. Amber was founded in late-2017 by Chris Thompson and Dan Adams (pictured.) It makes software allowing customers to access wholesale electricity prices and coordinate charging and discharging of home batteries and EVs to maximise the value of these assets.
Update: June 25 event gains guests from Quickstep, Harvest B for an important "missing middle" conversation

4 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts

New guests have been added to @AuManufacturing‘s upcoming Spotlight on Scaling Up event, with Quickstep Acting CEO Demi Stefanova and Harvest B Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer Alfred Lo announced as panellists. Stefanova and Lo, leaders from a composites specialist and food technology startup respectively, will appear in conversation with Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre Chair Paul Cooper at the June 25 seminar. Their 10 am session is titled Addressing the missing middle.
Manufacturing news briefs - stories you might have missed

4 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Peter Roberts

AMSL Aero and Stralis Aircraft, two Australian companies that are developing hydrogen-powered aircraft, have successfully registered a family of liquid hydrogen tanks.
Robot submarines reveal coral catastrophe at Australia's southernmost reef

4 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

Tiny underwater robots have captured devastating footage of coral bleaching at one of the world’s most remote reefs, exposing a hidden environmental crisis off the West Australian coast. Advanced Navigation’s micro submarines, called Hydrus, surveyed Hall Bank reef near Fremantle in June, revealing a barren seafloor littered with pale, lifeless corals at the unusual latitude of 32°S.
Trump’s steel tariffs are unlikely to have a big impact on Australia. But we could be hurt by what happens globally

4 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Peter Roberts

By Scott French, UNSW SydneyJust one day after the US Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated the Trump Administration’s Liberation Day tariffs of between 10 per cent and 50 per cent on nearly every country in the world, Trump announced tariffs on all US imports of steel and aluminium will increase from 25 per cent to 50 per cent. He told the rally of steel workers in Pennsylvania the increase would come into effect Wednesday US time.
Flea power could stop your hip replacement getting infected

4 days ago | aumanufacturing.com.au | Simran Gill |Peter Roberts

The secret behind a flea’s superhuman jumping ability could soon be protecting patients from dangerous post-surgery infections. Scientists at RMIT University have harnessed resilin — the stretchy protein that lets fleas leap more than 100 times their own height — to create a coating that completely blocks bacteria from sticking to medical implants.