Dr. James Friend, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Monash University in Australia, is developing a nanobot propelled by a tiny rotor motor measuring about five-millionths of a meter.

CNN: Nanobots get to the heart of the matter

Group CEO Alan Joyce revealed the airline was reviewing its maintenance facilities in Australia and consolidating its catering and engineering operations.

CNN: Qantas predicts huge profit slump

Simon Washington, a civil-engineering professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, co-wrote a study for the Arizona Department of Transportation in 2005 that cited other work showing that extending yellow-light intervals can reduce red-light running by 50% to 70%.

WSJ: Hard to Put Red-Light Violations Under a Lens

Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.

ENGADGET: Bionic eye closer to human trials with invention of implantable microchip

Brazil is the third-largest target for Chinese investment, trailing only Australia and the U.S., though Nigeria and Iran also boast large engineering contracts.

FORBES: Insight Into China's Overseas Investments

It provides specialist services in rail design, engineering, construction, management and maintenance, and offers supply chain solutions to a range of customers in Australia.

FORBES: Aurizon Holdings