18 Nov 2013

Our Changing World - Robotics

From Afternoons, 3:31 pm on 18 November 2013

Innovation is seen as a driver of economic wealth, but for a small country like New Zealand, turning a good idea into money can be difficult. The University of Auckland is tackling this challenge by joining forces with a German research institute that specialises in commercialisation. Veronika Meduna travelled to Germany to visit the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart and to find out more about the medical and industrial robots that are emerging from this collaboration.