2025 has been a year full of exciting opportunities, remarkable research, and interesting activities. To celebrate the wonderful achievements of our students and supervisors, we look back at just a few of the highlights of the year. January AgriFoRwArdS students at the University of Lincoln engage with the wider research community as members of the […]
By Dr Jeannette Chin (UEA AgriFoRwArdS Academic Lead)… AgriFoRwArdS CDT students and staff recently enjoyed a productive and festive two-day event, combining quarterly progress updates on their research project with a farm visit, providing invaluable real-world context for their work. 🔬 Day 1: Research Updates, Discussions, and Festive Cheer Organised by the UEA team, the […]
A group of our AgriFoRwArdS Students from Cohort 4 and 5 travelled to York this August to attend the 2025 Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS) Conference. This annual event brings together roboticists and early career researchers from across the UK. It is the longest-running UK-hosted international conference on Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and is specifically […]
This summer, AgriFoRwArdS organized a unique collaboration that brought together six interdisciplinary teams with a shared mission: to explore and develop an autonomous robotic shepherding system. Over an intensive week, participants combined expertise in robotics, AI, communication systems, drone technology, ethics, and economics to sow seeds towards building a functioning prototype that could someday revolutionize […]
We’re absolutely thrilled to celebrate a fantastic achievement by Jacob Swindell, a promising AgriFoRwArdS PhD student. Jacob recently presented his very first research paper at the prestigious IAS’19 conference in Genoa, Italy, and to top it all off, he walked away with the highly prestigious Best Student Paper Award! What an incredible debut on the international stage. Jacob’s paper, “Discrete […]