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 […]
This year’s AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference took to Zoom as we opened up the event to a worldwide audience. The online conference, held on the 15th and 16th May 2025, saw more than 150 delegates join us from across the world, for talks addressing global food challenges and real-life robotics applications. The conference brought together […]
AgriFoRwArdS student Emmanuel Soumo recently visited his industry partner, Crystal Heart Salad Company, who are completing a two-year InnovateUK project within their rather impressive experimental greenhouse. The InnovateUK project was closely aligned with Emmanuel’s MSc Project: A Data-Driven Approach for Optimal Control of Autonomous Greenhouse for Lettuce Growth. James Bean and his team at Crystal […]
Register now for the Agri-Food Robotics Online Conference, 15-16 May 2025: “Global food challenges and real-life robotic applications”. We would like to invite members of the CDT community and other robotics researchers and industry to take part in the AgriFoRwArdS Annual CDT Conference, that this year is being organised and run by the AgriFoRwArdS Cambridge […]
The University of Lincoln’s Lincoln Agri Robotics (LAR) team, including AgriFoRwArdS CDT Director Marc Hanheide, attended the AI & Robotics Research Awards in London this month. Marc was joined by AgriFoRwArdS Co-Investigator Simon Pearson, AgriFoRwArdS Primary Supervisors Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons and Riccardo Polvara, and PDRA Rajitha de Silva. The AI & Robotics Research Awards, sponsored […]