Australian innovator Contactile has been awarded the winner of the Advanced Manufacturing Award at the Australian Technologies Competition 2020, which seeks to identify and accelerate Australian technology ‘scaleups’ with the greatest global potential.
Contactile entered the Australian Technologies Competition with innovative new product, the PapillArray tactile sensor, which gives robots a human sense of touch to enable general purpose robotics that can use their hands just like people do, so that they can assist people to do dull, dirty and dangerous jobs. This innovation has applications in advanced manufacturing, agriculture, health and even space.