EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training -- Agriforwards CDT (CAMBRIDGE)


2020-06-19 15:00: Automation through Grower-reprogrammable Robotics (Dr Matthew Howard, King's College London)

2020-07-17 15:00: Talk 1: Sustainable Supply Chains, Smart Technologies, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Research Opportunities and Challenges/ Talk 2: Acceleration robotic automation of farming systems (Prof Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour/Prof Simon Pearson, Lincoln University)

2020-09-18 15:00: Designing plants for robots (Dr Richard Harrison, NIAB)

2020-10-16 15:00: Horticulture and the Path to Farming 4.0 (Iain Flint, G's Growers)

2020-11-20 15:00: CANCELLED due to the speaker's other commitments (Ben Magri, Syngenta)

2021-01-15 15:00: Algae for Food – enhancing nutritional value and reducing waste (Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2021-02-19 15:00: Practical Methods for Shared Decision Making in Human-Robot Teaming  (Professor Elizabeth Sklar)

2021-03-19 15:00: Working with and along-side humans in agricultural robotics (Prof Marc Hanheide)

2021-04-16 15:00: Towards Responsible Agricultural Robotics (Prof Alan Winfiled)

2021-05-21 15:00: Building integrated agriculture - a physics-based simulation approach for optimisation of environmental conditions (Rebecca Ward (PhD student))

2021-06-18 15:00: An introduction to Agri-EPI Centre and the challenges faced in agricultural robotics (Eliot Dixon, Data and Automation Lead, Agri-Epi Centre)

2021-07-16 15:00:  Modelling the spread and control of plant pathogens ( Dr Nik Cunniffe, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2021-09-17 15:00: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2021-10-15 15:00: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2021-11-19 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mini Saaj)