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Our Team,
Our Aspirations.
| About RoboCom |
| Remote Robotics with Humble Beginnings |
RoboCom - Creates engaging, informative and fun activities for high-school students across Australia. By combining some of the globes latest advancements in telecommunications, RoboCom offers an ultra low-latency, remote robotics experience where users take advantage of haptic-enabled master devices to control and feel robotic arm slave devices with hundereds to thousands of kilometers between the user and the slave system.
Our History - Beginning in 2024, a Deakin internship focused around peer-to-peer (P2P) connections in the hopes of creating a Remote Lab, quickly evolved into a full-fledged, funded Honours project concerned with remote robotic control. With various success points in combining P2P technologies, filter-based control approaches and rigorous data-collection / simulations, RoboCom evolved from a humble internship, into the thought-provoking, leading-edge platform it is today.
Our Vision - To connect students all across the globe to robotics systems right here at Deakin, to provide those who would be otherwise unable to develop an interest in robotics, the chance to do so. RoboCom envisions a future where no one is limited to a career outside of engineering based on location alone, we strive towards inclusivity, at it's finest.
Our Impact - 2 rural Australian schools currently utilise the RoboCom system to complete in-house designed activities that:
Our Future - To endeavour to greater applications of RoboCom by pushing the boundary of what is currently acheivable with an impactful, reliable remote robotics system.
| The RoboCom Team |
| Meet Our Experts |
Dr. Van Huynh
Dr Van Thanh Huynh is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University and the overall project leader of the auDA Community Grant (RoboCom) project. He works closely with schools and communities to use the internet and remote robotics in new ways that make learning more interactive and accessible. Through this project, he helps students, especially those in regional and underserved areas, take part in hands‑on STEM learning experiences, even when they are far away from specialist facilities.
Mr. Riley Bain
Lead designer and engineer of RoboCom. Completed his Bachelor (Honours) in Mechatronics at Deakin in 2024, and works closely with Dr. Huynh to develop a revolutionary system. Riley is currently completing his PhD under Dr. Huynh, striving to expand the boundary of remote robotics. Riley is consistently improving his research knowledge, and is highly invested in the expansion of RoboCom both locally and technologically.
Dr. Julianne Lynch
Education research lead. Professor of curriculum, pedagogy and professional practise in the Faculty of Arts & Education, works with the engineering team to develop learning activities mapped to the secondary school curriculum and appropriate for diverse students, and co-facilitate field work in schools. Passionate about equity, access, and social justice for rural education.
Dr. Zoran Najdovski
Associate Professor and lead of the Intelligent Human-Centric Systems Lab at Deakin's Institute for Intelligent Systems. My research is design-led and translational, focused on developing intelligent human-centric robotic systems that integrate fundamental advances in haptics, control, and mechatronics. He uses use system-level design and experimental platforms as a means to generate new knowledge and validate novel approaches in real-world environments. This enables the translation of theory into deployable technologies that enhance human capability, safety, and performance.
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