Collaborative robotics, virtual reality and aircraft cabin disease transmission prevention are among the latest projects under way at Boeing Research and Technology-Australia – the manufacturer’s largest research organisation outside of the United States. Boeing’s Australian research organisation – based in Melbourne and Brisbane – has been at the forefront of numerous pioneering developments that have been rolled out by the aerospace giant.
Category: Queensland, Australia
Big telcos may take wi-fi away from rural families: provider
A small internet provider helping to end the data drought in regional southern Queensland says it could soon be outbid by larger internet companies on digital spectrum access, thanks to a review by the Australian Communications and Media Authority . Toowoomba-based company Red WiFi has been using elevated positions on silos, water tanks and sheds to install dishes that stream wireless internet across rural communities, offering unlimited data to hundreds of families.
Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone
Who needs men? A female shark separated from her long-term mate has developed the ability to have babies on her own. Leonie the zebra shark met her male partner at an aquarium in Townsville, Australia, in 1999.
Three dead after car crash in Bucca near Bundaberg, Queensland
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