BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robotics and Sensing for Sustainable Crop Production - Cyrill Stac hniss\, University of Bonn DTSTART:20250221T130000Z DTEND:20250221T135500Z UID:TALK224128@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:114742 DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nCrop farming is essential in our society\, provi ding food\, feed\, fiber\, and fuel. We heavily rely on crop production\, but at the same time\, we need to reduce the production footprint. We aim to address this key challenge by investigating new solutions to produce c rops more sustainably. We study novel technology-driven approaches to mov e toward sustainable crop production. Agricultural robots offer promising directions to address management challenges in agricultural fields or sup port plant breeding efforts through large-scale trait acquisition. For tha t\, field robots need the ability to perceive and model their environment \, predict possible future developments\, and make appropriate decisions i n complex and changing situations. This talk will showcase our recent dev elopments in robotics for crop production\, incorporating machine learnin g to support farmers in operating more sustainably and reducing some negat ive impacts on the ecosystem.\n\n*Bio*\n\nCyrill Stachniss is a full profe ssor at the University of Bonn and heads the Photogrammetry and Robotics L ab. He is also a Visiting Professor in Engineering at the University of Ox ford and is with the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Before his appointment in Bonn\, he was with the University of Freiburg and ETH Zurich. Since 2010\, he has been a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and received the IEEE RAS Early Career Award in 2013. From 2015 to 2019\, he was senior editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation L etters. He is the spokesperson of the DFG Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob" at the University of Bonn\, together with his colleague Heiner Kuhlmann. His research focuses on probabilistic techniques as well as learning appro aches for mobile robotics\, perception\, and navigation. The main applicat ion areas of his research are autonomous service robots\, agricultural rob otics\, and self-driving cars. He has co-authored over 300 publications an d has coordinated multiple large-scale research projects on the national a nd European levels. Besides his university involvement\, he cofounded thre e startups: Escarda Technologies\, DeepUp\, and PhenoInspect. LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zo om.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&\;from=addon END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR