To complement our team, we have a group of experts within their respective fields who regularly work with us …. we’d just like to acknowledge their contributions to Tribotix.
Kate Crawford
Director at Eviva Pty Ltd
Kate has an amazing ability to enable people to collaborate effectively and adapt to change …. this is how we meet up with Kate. Back in early days, just around the time Facebook was starting, Kate created her own Social Network called Eviva – but Kate’s was for school children to work and collaborate effectively online …. this was way ahead of anything else being done at the time. We worked with Kate on a pilot program to get students in the Illawarra region to do their IT-based school work experience online on a robotic platform where the supervision was provided by us remotely. This was a great success, but as with many great ideas, funding wasn’t available to take this from the pilot stage to an on-going program. Since working on this project, Kate has been a constant sounding board for our ideas and has provided us with key introductions to other innovative people and companies looking to change the way that education is delivered.
Michael Dickinson
Senior Lecturer- Design @ The University of Newcastle
Michael is an Industrial Designer, currently lecturing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. We started working with Michael in 2006 when we undertook a joint project with the University of Newcastle to create a robot that could replace the Sony Aibo as the robot for RoboCup’s Standard Platform League (SPL). Our designs for this included a robot dog and robot bear …. Michael added his design skills to our hardware are created 2 amazing looking robots. Since then Michael has worked with us and advised us on many, many projects including the redesign of the DARwIn-OP’s head to accommodate a HD camera for the NUBots. His designs are always functional and eloquent.
Nick Gates
STEM Teacher & Founder of 3D Fruition
Nick is the best STEM teacher that we have had the pleasure to work with …. We starting working with Nick back in 20XX when Nick was teaching in Bendigo, Victoria. Funded by the …. Nick set up a number of innovative robotic contests using the Bioloid kit. Nick then returned to Canada briefly before returning to work on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Nick is a 3D printing guru, has developed curriculum for Aerodynamics/UAV’s and runs an annual Robotics Boot Camp competition. As well as teaching Nick also runs his business 3D Fruition that specialises in supplying and servicing 3D Printers.