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Blueberry picking robot could win $250,000 prize
Silicon Valley Robotics
29 Oct 2015
Here’s an interesting robotics challenge – a coalition of blueberry farmers are offering a $250,000 prize for automation solutions that improve blueberry picking. The deadline for entries in the c...
euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners
Marta Palau Franco
29 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition is the first outdoor competition where teams of land, sea and air robots must cooperate in a realistic disaster-response scenario. F...
Day Four at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
25 Sep 2015
Weather conditions challenged the teams participating on the second day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges. The morning started with the remaining team that had yet to participate in the la...
Day Three at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
24 Sep 2015
The first day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges started with the land and air (L+A) combined scenario, followed in the afternoon by the sea and land (S+L), where robots had to search for mis...
Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
24 Sep 2015
Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this first episode, Per speaks ...
Day Two at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
23 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. On the second day of single-domain trials, t...
Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
21 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
Coming of age: Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy on growing a robotics startup
Hallie Siegel
01 Sep 2015
Launched in 2009 by a group of Waterloo engineering students, Clearpath's unmistakeable bright yellow and black robots have become synonymous with unmanned vehicle research in university research ...
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Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus
Per Sjöborg
10 Jul 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....
Book Review: ‘Practical Field Robotics’ by Robert Sturges
Robots for Roboticists
07 Jul 2015
Practical Field Robotics: A Systems Approach by Robert H. Sturges, Jr. from Virginia Tech is an interesting book about how to design a field robot from a high level systems approach, and how to build ...
10th annual Field Robot Event underway
John Payne
28 Jun 2012
This year's Field Robot Event (FRE 2012) began today and runs through Saturday. I will bring together what reports I am able to find once the dust settles, but meanwhile you can view videos from past ...
Australian research organization’s description of agricultural robotics
John Payne
09 Jan 2012
On a web page describing their current efforts in agricultural robotics, CSIRO ICT Centre describes the focus area this way:
The application of field robotics to agriculture is an emerging area of ...
The importance of robotics to the achievement of sustainability
John Payne
28 Sep 2011
In a mid-August post bearing the same title, on my primary blog, I stated:
I firmly believe that (short of convincing the vast majority of people to return to subsistence farming, something which cou...
On the meaning of “cultivation”
John Payne
22 Aug 2006
As it commonly applies to raising plants, "cultivation" usually refers to a process involving the manipulation of soil, to incorporate plant residues into the soil after the previous harvest, to prep...
