Australia Leading Developer of Autonomous Robots

Check out what they're coming up with Down Under: Robots that think for themselves, working together in groups to accomplish complicated tasks. Like ants or bees.
The Australian Center for Field Robotics (ACFR) is a part of the Center for Autonomous Systems (CAS) along with the Artificial Intelligence Group from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales and the Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group from the faculty of Engineering at UTS.

When it comes to field robotics, they have three of the four elements covered: Earth, air and water are represented and surely fire is being creatively mulled over as I write this.
Their research robots are involved in mining operations, undersea exploration and rescue, tracking and analyzing air-based imagery data and even a robot you can program at home from a component based system.

There's some pretty cool goings on in the land Down Under. And it's not just kangaroos and koalas; boomerangs and crocodiles. Apparently it's servos and gyros, systems and software and a touch of good old-fashioned human ingenuity.