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 […]
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 […]
The Lincolnshire Farming Conference 2025 took place on the 13th February at the Lincolnshire Showground, this year the focus was on inspiring the next generation. The event brought together an exciting selection of speakers to answer the question, ‘in times of significant change and an ageing demographic of farmers, how can we inspire the next […]