Agri-EPIs Data and Automation Lead to discuss challenges faced in Agricultural Robotics

Agri-EPIs Data and Automation Lead to discuss challenges faced in Agricultural Robotics

Eliot Dixon, Data and Automation Lead at Agri-EPI Centre will be speaking to the AgriFoRwArdS community on Friday 18th June 2021 about the challenges that we face in agricultural robotics. Join us on Zoom for what promises to be an interesting and engaging talk as part of the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series. Title: An introduction to […]

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New CDT Director talks as part of Seminar Series

New CDT Director talks as part of Seminar Series

This last quarter saw significant change within the AgriFoRwArdS CDT. On 2nd March 2021 we said farewell to our CDT Director Professor Tom Duckett and were very pleased to welcome in his place, our new CDT Director Professor Marc Hanheide. Marc is a Professor of Intelligent Robotics & Interactive Systems within the School of Computer […]

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Prof Elizabeth Sklar (CDT Supervisor) to present on human-robot teaming

Prof Elizabeth Sklar (CDT Supervisor) to present on human-robot teaming

A week today (Friday 19th February 2021) at  3pm Professor Elizabeth Sklar from Lincoln Agri-Robotics (LAR) at the University of Lincoln will be presenting to the CDT community as part of the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series. We operate an opt in policy for the Seminar Series, so if you would like to receive monthly invitations to […]

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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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