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Researcher

Cori Stewart

Cori Stewart is a researcher and industry leader who connects artificial intelligence and robotics with manufacturing. She started in visual art and arts writing, studied arts, culture and media policy, and later worked in Brisbane City Council policy before joining QUT’s Design Robotics project. She founded ARM Hub and coauthored a 2020 study of design-led open innovation. Her honours include the Asia Pacific Women in AI Award for AI in Manufacturing in 2022, Superstars of STEM recognition in 2023 and 2024, and election as an ATSE Fellow in 2025. As of October 2026, she is ARM Hub’s founder and CEO and holds a Churchill Fellowship on embodied AI for manufacturing.

Now at
ARM Hub
Works
17
Citations
38
h-index
4
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2020

    From art to ARM Hub

    She starts as a visual artist and arts writer, studies arts, culture and media policy, and works as Brisbane City Council’s Creative City Policy Officer. By 2020, she is CEO and founder of ARM Hub, an independent not-for-profit technology commercialisation facility supporting robotics, AI and manufacturing scale-up.

  2. 2020

    A paper on open innovation

    By 2020, she is an Associate Professor at QUT and a Chief Investigator on the Design Robotics project. She coauthors the 2020 paper “Designing an Open Innovation Orchestrator,” which studies a design-led workshop for the new ARM Hub.

  3. 2022

    An AI manufacturing award

    She receives the Asia Pacific Women in AI Award for AI in Manufacturing in 2022.

  4. 2023–2024

    Superstars of STEM

    She is named one of Australia’s Superstars of STEM for 2023 and 2024. In December 2023, she says generative AI lets factory workers use English to query systems and access data.

  5. September 2025

    Elected an ATSE Fellow

    In September 2025, she is elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

  6. 2026

    Investigating embodied AI

    In 2026, she receives a Churchill Fellowship to study how embodied AI could help Australia make its manufacturing sector more competitive.

  7. As of October 2026

    Leading ARM Hub

    As of October 2026, she is ARM Hub’s founder and CEO.

Career

  1. NowARM HubFounder and CEO
  2. 2018–2019Queensland University of TechnologyAssociate Professor; Chief Investigator
  3. Brisbane City CouncilCreative City Policy Officer

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. The Culture: of Contemporary Writers' Festivals2010 · 14 citations
  2. We Call Upon the Author to Explain: Theorising Writers' Festivals as Sites of Contemporary Public Culture2010 · 8 citations
  3. Designing an Open Innovation Orchestrator: the case of Australia’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub2019 · 6 citations
  4. Robotics and artificial intelligence in architecture: what skills will architects need in 2050?2020 · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 1 citations
  5. Design + Open Innovation: The Case of Australia’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub (ARM) Hub2019 · 0 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Queensland University of Technology. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  4. 47% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Women in Design Robotics parlour.org.au. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Professor Cori Stewart atse.org.au. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Designing an Open Innovation Orchestrator: the case of Australia’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub e-publishing.cern.ch. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Robots to lead advanced manufacturing in Australia abc.net.au. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Cori Stewart of ARM Hub announced in ATSE Fellows List armhub.com.au. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Cori Stewart - Churchill Trust churchilltrust.com.au. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. The people that make ARM Hub what it is armhub.com.au. Checked 19 October 2026.