Research England, Expanding Excellence in England Fund, 2019-2022.

This project creates Lincoln Agri-Robotics, a global centre of excellence in Agri-Robotics in the UK. This includes research into autonomous agri-robots that can efficiently tend, harvest and quality-control high-value crops with reduced human intervention, improving agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, and addressing the demands of growing population. Lincoln Agri-Robotics brings together world-leading expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence and agriculture, based on the site of the University’s working farm at Riseholme Campus. Lincoln Agri-Robotics expands the successful interdisciplinary collaboration between two of the University’s leading research groups: the Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS).

Contact: Elizabeth Sklar