National Instruments Autonomous Robotics

Young robot designers are preparing their machines to face off in a live autonomous competition involving teams from leading Australian and New Zealand universities.30 student teams have passed four of the five milestone tasks assigned to their robots, with one final stage required to secure a spot in the 2014 National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC) final on Thursday, 25 September at Macquarie University in Sydney, NSW. This year’s competition task focuses on agriculture, an important industry across Oceania and a key growth industry for robotics applications.