Mechatronics Prototyping for Pastoria East

Our CTO (Luke Cole) previously worked for Hemisphere GPS (orginally called BEELINE, and now bought out by AgJunction) as a "Robotics Engineer" implementing auto-guidance solutions for various quadbikes and agriculture tractors that was used by 100's of vehicles around the world.

For 10 years, starting as a teenager in 1998 - Luke Cole has also worked for leading research institutes and companies such as NICTA (now called CSIRO Data61), CSIRO, Seeing Machines and ANU Robotics System Lab (lead by Alex Zelinsky, who received a rare prestigious AO award in 2017 and was Defence Scientist of Australia from 2012 for 6 years). Luke's work included various autonomous mobile robot projects, involving computer vision, and even a self-driving car early 2000's. Back then OpenCV and ROS didn't exist, so we did a "roll-your-own" called VisLib and DROS comprised of 364,578 lines of code.

Lance Cole has also worked at NICTA and has a background of various hardware development, such as working for a contract company to the US millary (EOS), building the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS).

At COLETEK, we empower businesses in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, to bring innovative mechatronics products and solutions to life. Our team of experienced engineers specializes in transforming ideas into tangible prototypes, iteratively refining them to meet your specific requirements.

Our mechatronics prototyping process starts with thorough requirements capture and analysis. We collaborate closely with you to understand your vision, technical challenges, and desired functionalities. This collaborative approach ensures we can make informed engineering trade-offs and develop a feasible roadmap for your project.

We have extensive experience in various technical areas relevant to mechatronics prototyping, including requirements capture, engineering trade-offs, integration planning, testing, and iteration. Our in-house prototyping lab facilitates rapid hardware and software development, testing, and refinement.

Whether you need to validate the feasibility of a concept, refine an existing prototype, or prepare your product for production, COLETEK can support you every step of the way. We can also facilitate remote collaboration and periodic design reviews to ensure seamless communication and progress tracking.

Our commitment to delivering exceptional results has earned us recognition, including Good Design Awards for product innovation. We take pride in working alongside businesses across Australia to transform their ideas into reality.