University of Lincoln, UK
A project involving 3D camera technology currently being developed at the University of Lincoln, UK, could result in a fully automatic robotic harvesting system for broccoli. The University of Lincoln was one of more than 70 UK businesses and universities to share funding through the £70 million Agri-Tech Catalyst, which aims to improve the development…
Robotics experts from around the world will present ground-breaking research on how robots are moving out of the laboratory and into homes and workplaces at a major international conference hosted by the University of Lincoln, UK. The European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) 2015 takes place on 2-4 September 2015. It is the first time…
Researchers have programmed a robot that is able to understand and react to human movement. The team, based at the University of Lincoln, UK, have developed a computational model which focusses on the essence of movement, representing the relative movement of human and robot in relation to one another. This enables the robot to reason…
Visitors to The Collection in Lincoln can meet a very special robot during EU Robotics Week later this month. Linda the robot, from the University of Lincoln, UK, will be guiding visitors to exhibitions in the museum as part of European Robotics Week from 24th to 30th November 2014. Linda is one of six robots…
Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behaviour of swarming honeybees. Colias – named after a genus of butterfly – is an open-platform system that can be used to investigate collective behaviours and be applied to swarm applications. Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature have become…
A team of computer scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, is co-organising an international workshop on recent advances in agricultural robotics. Academics from the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) will be attending the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13) from 15th to 19th July, 2014. Recent results confirm that robots, machines…
Linda the robot was one of the star attractions at the high-profile Longitude Prize 2014 launch, which aims to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. Linda is one of six specialist mobile robots involved in the £7.2 million collaborative STRANDS project aimed at creating robots that are able to operate independently…
The European Commission has named the STRANDS robotics project as one of the best, as part of EU Robotics Week. Lincoln’s robot Linda has been taking part in a robot marathon this week, squaring off against robot partners in Leeds, Birmingham, Sweden, Germany and Austria. The robots have been battling it out to be the last one standing…
Using robots to understand animal social cognition: We are offering a funded PhD position for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated student to join a thriving and dynamic research environment, and benefit from close associations with both the School of Life Sciences and the School of Computer Science. The aim of this project is to develop a robot that…