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 […]
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 […]
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 […]