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An infographic showing leaf-level injury and plant-level injury from Tuta absoluta, an insect pest, on tomato.

Webinar #51 on July 24, 2019

Posted onJuly 3, 2019December 17, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

Denis Pastory from the Tokyo University of Agriculture presented a webinar, "Emerging Technological Transfer to Tackle Invasive Pest challenges in Sub-Sahara Africa: A computer vision Approach," on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 8:00pm/20:00 JST (UTC +9). The edited video is Continue Reading

Phoenix agricultural robot from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. This robot has different tools for tasks such as precision spraying, intra-row weeding in vineyards, and inter-row weeding in crop rows. Image provided by David Reiser.

Webinar #50 on May 24, 2019

Posted onMay 15, 2019July 3, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

David Reiser from the University of Hohenheim presented a webinar on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 3:30pm/15:30 CEST (UTC +2). The edited video is available here [215MB], as well as through YouTube. Talk details. Title: How can we integrate robots Continue Reading

A sweet pepper harvesting robot with a basket of harvested peppers.

Webinar #49 on April 18, 2019

Posted onApril 7, 2019May 15, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

Jos Balendonck from Wageningen University & Research and Ruud Barth from Saia Agrobotics, the Netherlands, presented a webinar on April 18, 2019 at 3:30pm/15:30 CET (UTC +2). A video of the webinar is available at this link [207 MB]. Talk Continue Reading

The VineScout robot, part of an EU-funded project, in operation in vineyards.

Webinar #48 on March 13, 2019

Posted onFebruary 23, 2019March 26, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

Francisco Rovira-Más from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Agricultural Robotics Laboratory in Valencia, Spain presented a webinar on Wednesday, March 13,14:00 CET (UTC + 1). A video of the webinar is available at this link [192 MB]. Talk Continue Reading

Commonly encountered acronyms

Posted onDecember 22, 2018April 5, 2022AuthorAmy Tabb

Here’s a list of acronyms you may see within the AgRA community. Do you want an acronym added to this list? Please email. AgRA Agricultural Robotics and Automation (Technical Committee of, this group) ASABE American Society of Agricultural and Biological Continue Reading

An apple tree in an orchard is labeled using CNNs.

Webinar #47 on December 11, 2018

Posted onNovember 14, 2018December 18, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

Philipe Ambrozio Dias from the Marquette University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in Milwaukee, USA presented a webinar on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 12:30pm. A video of the webinar is available at this link [115 MB] as well as on Continue Reading

An example image from the NREC Person Detection Dataset, where a person is squatting in an orchard row.

Webinar #46 on November 2, 2018

Posted onOctober 15, 2018December 18, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

Zachary Pezzementi and Trenton Tabor from the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA presented our first re-booted webinar on Friday, November 2, 2018, 10am EDT (GMT -4:00). Slides are available: pptx [215 MB] or Continue Reading

Presenting an AgRA TC webinar

Posted onOctober 14, 2018June 28, 2019AuthorAmy Tabb

We invite TC members to present their work in the form of a webinar. This post is to answer some frequently asked questions. Before the details, I’ll briefly mention that the webinars are broadcast to an international audience and also Continue Reading