He was the director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and currently is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Queensland University of Technology.
He developed an open-source robot control system[5] and vision applications in food processing and for real-time traffic monitoring.
[9] In 1996, Corke co-authored an early tutorial paper[10] and later proposed the partitioned approach to visual control.
[11] He served as Research Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory of CSIRO's Information and Communications Technology Centre (ICTC), from 2004 to 2007.
[15][16] He was a senior principal research scientist when he left to take up a chair at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010.