NICTA/UNSW team has won a significant international technology award, winning first place in the ARTEMIS Orchestra competition in Athens with a robotically operated, computer-driven clarinet.

The NICTA/UNSW project, led by NICTA’s Dr John Judge, developed the clarinet player over the last eight months.

NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence, an independent company in the business of research, commercialisation and research training. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research.