Robotron Group


Robotron Pty. Ltd. is an Australian research & development and manufacturing company of various specialty high-technology equipment. The company was founded by 1983 by a Czech-born engineer Milan Hudecek. Its products include assistive technology equipment for the blind, such as , , etc.
Hudecek's inspirational meetings with executives of various blind support and consumer organizations, discussing development of the Robotron equipment, for example the , are described in various sources, for example . The company also pioneered the development of speech synthesis products for non-European languages, for example .
In 1989, the company won the .
In 1990, the company was awarded the annual Canadian .
In 1991 the company founded a subsidiary called Rosetta Laboratories Pty. Ltd. to concentrate on development and marketing of specialty PC peripherals. One of its first products was the WiNRADiO PC card which provided the initial impetus for the development of the entire WiNRADiO range of PC-based radio receivers and accessories.