CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

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• Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd.
• Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00
• Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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The road from blue-skies robotics research to contract manufacturing.

Horticulture, and in particular the production of soft fruit for fresh consumption, is heavily reliant on imported manual labour. This drives up costs and uncertainty for the growers. Fieldwork Robotics Ltd has developed a modular and autonomous raspberry harvesting robot, and is now planning commercial manufacturing of their latest iteration.

The company was spun-out from the University of Plymouth in 2016, based on the RD&I activity of Dr. Martin F. Stoelen on soft and modular robots for horticulture. Their robots have been undergoing commercial trials in Odemira, Portugal, and in spring 2022 sold the first raspberries for fresh consumption picked autonomously. Fieldwork Robotics Ltd has its main office in Cambridge, UK, and are currently expanding operations to other countries and continents.

The talk will outline the need for this type of robots, and the current state-of-the-art. It will also explore the timeline of, the different systems involved in, and the collaborations underpinning Fieldwork Robotics’ raspberry harvesting solution.

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