The EPSRC AgriFoRwArdS CDT have 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 10 December 2021 and 10 January 2022. The hackathon brings together students from all over the UK, and...
With an estimated 37% of the world’s greenhouse gasses being produced by the agri-food industry, the UK Government has selected the University of Lincoln, UK, to share with COP26 its cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology which is influencing the future of sustainable food production. The UN Climate...
Missed our Lincoln Agri-Robotics Citizen Science event last week? Watch again to find out how the fruit and vegetables growing in your garden/field can support our robotic research. Hear researchers explain the importance of images in developing machine learning, sensing and vision systems – supporting the future of agriculture and...
Are you a cattle and/or sheep farmer in the UK? Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology student Alice Bucker is researching liver fluke in the UK and needs your help. Hear from Alice below. “I am an MSc student at the university of Lincoln researching liver fluke in the UK,...
Interested in applying for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research and Industry funded Collaborative Training Partnership for Fruit Crop Research opportunity at Lincoln? ‘High-throughput robotic phenotyping of fruit traits for automatic strawberry harvesting’ For more details and information visit http://bit.ly/3idkWBl or contact Greg Cielniak gcielniak@lincoln.ac.uk Applications should be submitted...
The Lincoln Institute for food Agri-Technology ‘s Autonomous Black-grass Detection project aims to use deep learning to detect black-grass in cereal crops. Deep learning systems require large training image datasets. So we are collecting a large number of images of black-grass in cereal fields (pedestrian, low-impact image collection). We...