Spotlights & innovations

Fascinating projects, real outcomes

Dive into our world of projects and partnerships that highlight our commitment to innovation and excellence — across mining, manufacturing, energy, safety and robotics.

Transforming manufacturing: automation for efficiency and sustainability Automation · Sustainability

March 2025

Transforming manufacturing: automation for efficiency and sustainability

Robotics that replace heavy manual handling for a local packing company — eliminating thermal shrink wrap, cutting plastic waste and lifting throughput.

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MineRover — intelligent underground transport Robotics · Mining

February 2025

MineRover — intelligent underground transport

Partnering with National Coal Group Corp. on an autonomous underground transport system with intelligent tracking, real-time monitoring and advanced safety mechanisms.

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An affordable AI vision system for pool robots AI · Computer vision

October 2024

An affordable AI vision system for pool robots

With DB Robot, we gave a pool-cleaning robot eyes and a brain — an edge-AI camera with on-device object detection, built for under AUD $100.

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Enhancing fire safety with PyroSafe R&D partnership · Fire safety

September 2024

Enhancing fire safety with PyroSafe

PyroSafe partnered with Orainic to integrate cutting-edge sensing and suppression technology into products like the Blaze Terminator and ROTDR fire-sensing system.

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"Energy Unleashed" — grid-scale storage with Toshiba SCiB Energy · Infrastructure

June 2024

"Energy Unleashed" — grid-scale storage with Toshiba SCiB

A containerised, large-scale battery storage project built on Toshiba's SCiB lithium-titanium-oxide cells — extraordinary safety, 20,000+ cycles and six-minute fast charge.

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Nexobot — revolutionising warehouse automation Robotics · Logistics

May 2024

Nexobot — revolutionising warehouse automation

Supporting Nexobot’s modular robotic parcel-sorting system: 3D-printed, rapidly deployed in as little as 8 weeks, with no upfront cost for operators.

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"Vigilant Guardian" — digital wildfire analysis and monitoring R&D · Environmental sensing

March 2024

"Vigilant Guardian" — digital wildfire analysis and monitoring

With the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Forestry Bureau: a 15-sensor, multi-dimensional wildfire monitoring system proven during the 2022 California fires.

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