Winners of the Poinsettia Holiday Hackathon 2020

Winners of the Poinsettia Holiday Hackathon 2020

The EPSRC AgriFoRwArdS CDT teamed up with others from The University of Lincoln, including, Lincoln Agri-Robotics and the EPSRC Internet of Food Things to hold a Holiday Hackathon Challenge between Monday 14th and Friday 18th December 2020. The weeklong hackathon brought together students from all over the UK, and further afield, to work on machine […]

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Festive fun – Poinsettia photo collection

Festive fun – Poinsettia photo collection

Robotics Researchers at the University of Lincoln are hosting a machine learning and computer vision competition to devise intelligent ways to find the “best” poinsettia. We will be looking at the height of the plant, colour of the leaves, and “bushiness” among other attributes. This work will contribute towards building an image recognition system and […]

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Second Edition of the AgriFoRwArdS Newsletter

Second Edition of the AgriFoRwArdS Newsletter

We are very pleased to announce the Second Edition of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS Newsletter! To view the second edition of our newsletter simply click here (please note, the functions of this newsletter require Google Chrome to work correctly – a PDF version can be provided on request) If […]

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A successful virtual conference LIROS 2020

A successful virtual conference LIROS 2020

Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) held the University of Lincoln’s conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS), modelled on the larger, International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS) being held by IEEE later in the year. This event took place via Microsoft Teams on Friday 9th October 2020 and was incorporated in the […]

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Recruitment for October 2021 entry now open

Recruitment for October 2021 entry now open

We are very excited to announce that last week saw the opening of recruitment for Cohort 3 of the AgriFoRwArdS CDT. The first recruitment round will run from 1st October 2020 to 30th November 2020, followed by a second round running from 1st December 2020 to 31st January 2021. We are looking forward to receiving […]

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