Everything we've done.

Sep 2026

Ausdroid researcher Yangmengfei (Murphy) Xu was invited to speak at the Capricorn 26 Productathon Opening Day, where he shared his work on human–robot interaction and movement adaptation.

Aug 2026

Dr Guang Hu, an Ausdroid researcher and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, presented “Beyond Static Assumptions: The Predictive Justified Perspective Model for Epistemic Planning” at SoCS 2026 in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Aug 2026

Ausdroid hosted an information and team formation session to help University of Melbourne students learn about the Capricorn 2026 Productathon, meet potential teammates, and begin developing ideas for Physical AI innovation in sports.

1 Jul 2026

Guang Hu presented “Proactive Assistance Agent with Online Goal Recognition” at ICAPS 2026 in Dublin, sharing research on how AI agents can infer another agent’s goals and proactively help.

Apr 2026

Ausdroid members came together for a mid-semester gathering, with board games and informal conversation providing time to reconnect.

Nov 2025

Ausdroid brought students and researchers together to explore AI and robotics projects, discuss research ideas and connect through board games.

Aug 2025

GP_Healer, an Ausdroid-supported team including Yifei Wang and Yuchen Zhong, received the Challenge - Care GP award at NextGen AI 2025.

Aug 2025

Ausdroid volunteers Yangmengfei Xu and Guang Hu introduced visitors to the club’s robotics work at the University of Melbourne Open Day.

Aug 2025

On 3 August 2025, Ausdroid welcomed new and returning members for Semester 2. The gathering introduced competition and research opportunities, outlined upcoming club activities and included time to get to know one another through board games.

Jul 2025

Ausdroid placed fifth nationally at the 2025 Droid Racing Challenge, bringing together computer vision, autonomous navigation and robot control.

Jun 2025

Ausdroid brought students together to explore Semester 2 research projects in AI planning, robotics and human–computer interaction.

May 2025

First author Wanchun Li and supervisor Yangmengfei Xu shared Ausdroid’s research on higher-order human beliefs at CHI 2025 in Yokohama.

Apr 2025

Ausdroid finished fifth in the Planning Track and tenth in the Combined Track of the League of Robot Runners, with awards recognised in 2025.

Aug 2024

Team Ausdroid showcased autonomous robots and demonstrated live robot control to thousands of prospective students.

Jun 2024

Ausdroid introduced research projects in AI planning, human belief modelling and robotics, followed by questions and discussion. A workshop recording is available.

18 Nov 2023

Ausdroid introduced AI planning and robotics research projects for the summer break and the upcoming semester, helping students explore research directions with the team.

Aug–Sep 2023

Ausdroid’s weekly ROS workshops introduced practical robot software development, from Linux and ROS nodes to visualisation and coordinate transforms.

Sep 2022

Developed integrated mapping, localisation, path planning, and motion planning modules to form the core mobility stack of the robot.

May 2022

Ausdroid developed VCATS v2, integrating Unity 3D with ROS for robot and autonomous-agent testing.

May 2022

Continued online workshops via Zoom covering AI, computer vision, and robot navigation. Session recordings made available to all members.

Mar 2022

Research and engineering project to improve robot visibility using deep learning-based object detection and tracking algorithms.

Oct 2021

Ausdroid volunteers shared the team’s projects and robot demonstrations with visitors at the University of Melbourne Open Day.

2021

Ausdroid participated remotely in the ICRA 2021 DJI RoboMaster AI Challenge and received Third Prize in the online category.

Nov 2020

Built the first version of the VCATS simulation environment using ROS, providing a testing ground for autonomous robot algorithms.

Aug 2020

Ausdroid’s online project launch introduced hardware and software opportunities in robotics. The software session is available to watch on YouTube.

Dec 2019

Ausdroid affiliated with the University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association (GSA) in December 2019, connecting the club’s AI and robotics community with the wider graduate student network.

Aug 2019

Ausdroid shared its robot demonstrations and ICRA competition highlights with visitors at the University of Melbourne Open Day.

Aug–Oct 2019

Ausdroid ran weekly workshops from August to October, sharing the ROS, hardware systems, navigation and computer vision behind its competition robots.

May 2019

Ausdroid received Third Prize at the DJI RoboMaster AI Challenge at ICRA 2019 in Montreal, Canada.

Aug 2018

Ausdroid introduced visitors to its robotics work through an interactive display at the University of Melbourne Open Day.

Jul 2018

Ausdroid opened software development and robotics research opportunities for Computing and Information Systems (CIS) students through the CIS Research Project.

May 2018

Ausdroid competed in the DJI RoboMaster AI Challenge at IEEE ICRA 2018 in Brisbane and received a Finalist Award.

Apr 2018

Ausdroid advanced to the Finalist round of the DJI RoboMaster AI Challenge, placing in the Top 22 teams worldwide.

Feb 2018

Ausdroid received its first robot, sponsored by DJI, and began preparing the platform for the team’s robotics work.

Jan 2018

Ausdroid ranked A in the technical proposal for the IEEE ICRA 2018 DJI RoboMaster AI Challenge and received a free robot.

Dec 2017

Team Ausdroid was established at the University of Melbourne with a mission to advance autonomous robotics research and compete in international competitions.