In a collaboration between Design Factory Melbourne, Kyoto Institute of Technology and Japan-based company Yanmar, a team of students developed Kansroo, an autonomous robot which collects data on crops and farming conditions, enabling farmers to make informed farming decisions.
In collaboration with Japanese biopharmaceutical company Takeda, a team of students for Design Factory Melbourne and the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, developed an app for people with narcolepsy to track their unique symptoms, medication and habits, allowing them to be better informed on how these factors correlate.
As part of a Challenged Based Innovation (CBI) project, a team of DFM students devised a solution to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 – good health and wellbeing.
A team of students from Aalto Design Factory and Design Factory Melbourne developed ‘Carelink’, a smart mattress to detect and prevent incidents in Aged Care Homes.
A team of students from Design Factory Melbourne and Kyoto Institute of Technology created Frio, an energy-saving smart fridge system for hotels using new innovative cooling technology from NKC-Kaimen.