Barclays launches Eagle Lab Farm to boost future of UK agriculture The new Lab, in association with the University of Lincoln (UK), will support entrepreneurs with the latest technology and includes a co-working and business space dedicated to furthering innovation in Agricultural Technology (Agri-tech) Lab follows recent announcement of...
At Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology we are hosting our first Virtual Breakfast Briefing, ‘Herbicide Resistance in Black-grass and the Potential for Mechanical Control’. Join us on Friday 23 October 2020 at 08:30-10:00am to hear from Professor Simon Pearson, Dr Shaun Coutts and Tom Lane within the following schedule. ...
Senior Lecturer in Agriculture, Simon Goodger, recently gave a fascinating presentation which covered five key themes that LIAT will focus on. You can view Simon’s full presentation here. One of the themes of Simon’s presentation is Robotic Automation- a crucial element of Agri-Food Technology. A video of LIAT’s very own farming robot, Thorvald...
We are delighted to announce the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology will be sponsoring the Lincolnshire Farming Conference on Tuesday 28th February 2017. Held at the Lincolnshire Showground, home of the historic Lincolnshire Show, the event will combine talks, case studies and one-to-one sessions with industry experts with the opportunity to...
BBC One’s flagship Sunday evening programme, Countryfile, this week featured the pioneering work of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT). As part of the show’s Lincolnshire programme, Director of LIAT Professor Simon Pearson, introduced the University’s Thorvald robot, which is designed to support a range of agri-tech experiments...
Fully funded PhD Position in 3D Point-Cloud Vision for a Broccoli Harvesting Robot