Nov 18, 2024 · Flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero has completed the first untethered test flight of its Australian designed and manufactured electric aircraft in New South Wales’ central west. The first free battery-power flight took place earlier this month, AMSL Aero announced on Monday, with the fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft taking off and landing successful more than 50 times.

Dec 17, 2024 · Australia’s first lunar rover will be designed and built by the ELO2 consortium after it beat out a bid by rival group AROSE for the $42 million in federal funding and spot on the NASA mission. The decision was announced Tuesday after 18 months of design, and secures a place for ELO2’s ‘Roo-ver’ on the historic moonshot later this decade.

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has made a $25 million equity investment in South Australian IoT and satellite communications startup Myriota as part of a broader $50 million funding round. The fresh funds will be used to further develop the company’s network technologies and infrastructure, and to scale local manufacturing of its …

Jan 13, 2025 · Gilmour Space Technologies has started 2025 in the same position it finished 2024: Without a final permit from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and consequently without a launch date. In fact, Gilmour’s 25-metre Eris launch vehicle is resting quietly in a horizontal position inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport in Queensland. Once CASA issues a ...

Oct 9, 2024 · AustCyber, the former government-funded cybersecurity Industry Growth Centre, has shed its ties with startup incubator Stone and Chalk and been reborn as the Australian Cyber Network. Launched on Wednesday, the new not-for-profit will be led by former AustCyber executives Linda Cavanagh and Jason Murrell, who devised the Australian Cyber Network (ACN) over the last two years.

Dec 13, 2024 · The Sydney Startup Hub home to popular accelerators and dozens of budding companies will be shifted out of the CBD to the Tech Central precinct next year to get founders closer to researchers and larger companies. The move south will break the current York Street lease three years early and comes after doubts about the value of an arrangement that was costing the government $15 million ...

Dec 19, 2024 · In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the dead, using AI toothbrushes and confessing to an AI-powered Jesus. Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was valued at US$150 billion and claimed it was on the way to developing an advanced AI system more capable than humans.

The InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2024 celebrate the translation of Australian ideas and research into commercial success and social impact across a wide range of categories.

Nov 25, 2024 · The Western Australian state government has committed $15 million to construct a new medical research and innovation hub in Perth. Announced over the weekend, Minister for Medical Research and for Innovation and the Digital Economy Stephen Dawson said the hub will provide space for collaboration, research, and development. It will link to the existing East Metropolitan Health Service ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Victoria will deliver a $20 million boost to five key priority sectors, including advanced manufacturing and health technologies, through a new industry development fund. The fund, which will provide matched grants and loans to startups and scale ups with “high growth potential”, comes as the government prepares to release its first industry policy since 2018.The government has also ...