Description

A ‘living lab’ of human-robot interaction, the Monash Robotics Research Facility at Clayton campus houses the complex, long-term experiments required to advance robotics in the home, community, and industry. It combines cross-disciplinary research departments in a single purpose-built facility that supports collaborative innovation focusing on the interaction of humans and robots. The Robotics Lab enables research into a future where robots interact intuitively and safely with humans, and are successfully integrated in next-generation manufacturing, rehabilitation, agricultural, medical, and home settings.
Designed by Studio Bright, the project is a reworking of the ground floor of an existing 1960s building, with a new activated interface featuring a fluted awning and additional glazing that puts internal learning and research ‘on show’. Shared tool rooms and task-based zoning clusters researchers together, and larger architectural gestures increase transparency into the interior fulfilling the civic ambitions of the brief. Featuring a refined and elegant internal palette of subtle hues against natural materials, the facility enables Monash’s world-leading team of robotics researchers, students, and industry partners to pursue human-centred robotics research, advancing beyond traditional industry and manufacturing approaches.

What's On

Join a tour led by Studio Bright and the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. Gain exclusive insight into this purpose-built research facility, including the state-of-the-art experimental arena and innovative robotics research. Visitors are encouraged to also visit other Monash Clayton sites and make an afternoon of it!