Wolds Beef
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Lincolnshire and Lincoln University lead the way! Can this fill the labour gap? Can all of agriculture benefit?
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Agri Robotics
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https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2019/06/worlds-first-robot-farming-centre-opening-in-lincoln/
World’s first robot farming centre opening in Lincoln
Connor Creaghan
June 13 at 1:52 PM
Thorvald mobile robot to support agri-tech. Photo: University of Lincoln
The University of Lincoln has been given nearly £6.4 million in government funding to create the world’s first robot farming centre.
In what is being hailed as a major boost to farming in Lincolnshire, the money will bring together the best experts in agriculture, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Researchers will look at how robots can tend, harvest and control high value crops without the need for human workers.
The Lincoln Agri-Robotics centre will be based at the University of Lincoln’s Riseholme Campus, which already has a working farm and laboratories.
Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, said: “We are delighted to receive this important backing from Research England via the E3 fund, which will enable our scientists to continue supporting our food and farming industries into the future.
“We will be able to scale up our work tackling pressing issues facing the food chain, from improving agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability to addressing the demands of a growing population.
“It is testament to the exciting work of our researchers that Lincoln has been selected as the home of the world’s first centre of excellence in agri-robotics.”
World’s first robot farming centre opening in Lincoln
Connor Creaghan
June 13 at 1:52 PM
Thorvald mobile robot to support agri-tech. Photo: University of Lincoln
The University of Lincoln has been given nearly £6.4 million in government funding to create the world’s first robot farming centre.
In what is being hailed as a major boost to farming in Lincolnshire, the money will bring together the best experts in agriculture, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Researchers will look at how robots can tend, harvest and control high value crops without the need for human workers.
The Lincoln Agri-Robotics centre will be based at the University of Lincoln’s Riseholme Campus, which already has a working farm and laboratories.
Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, said: “We are delighted to receive this important backing from Research England via the E3 fund, which will enable our scientists to continue supporting our food and farming industries into the future.
“We will be able to scale up our work tackling pressing issues facing the food chain, from improving agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability to addressing the demands of a growing population.
“It is testament to the exciting work of our researchers that Lincoln has been selected as the home of the world’s first centre of excellence in agri-robotics.”
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
£6.4million for new agri-robotics centre
University of Lincoln receives significant funding from government's innovation grant
The University of Lincoln has received £6.4million to create a new global centre of excellence in agri-robotics.
Research at the centre, dubbed Lincoln Agri-Robotics, will focus on autonomous agri-robots that can efficiently tend, harvest and quality control high-value crops with reduced human intervention, improving agriculture productivity to meet the demands of a growing population.
The grant is a slice of the government’s £76m Expanding Excellence in England Fund, part of its wider industrial strategy to raise public and private sector R&D spend to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027.
First announced in February, Lincoln Agri-Robotics will expand two of the University’s specialist research groups – the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems, by bringing together the groups’ scientists into one specialist organisation.
Professor Andrew Hunter, Lincoln's deputy vice chancellor for research and innovation, said: "Agri-food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK – twice the scale of automotive and aerospace combined – supporting a food chain which generates a Gross Value Added (GVA) of £113bn, with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry.
"It is widely agreed that robotics will transform the food and farming industries in the coming years, as producers adapt to meet significantly increased global demand, but there is still so much research and development to be done.
"The creation of Lincoln Agri-Robotics is therefore extremely timely and positions Lincolnshire, and the UK, at the leading edge of research innovations in this truly global industry. RAAI technologies will facilitate a step change in agricultural productivity while reducing environmental impact, and this new centre of excellence will be at the forefront of that change."
The £6.4m grant will enable the headquarters for the research centre, develop a state of the art digital infrastructure, create specialist RAAI facilities and strengthen its pool of world-leading robotics researchers by bringing in a number of new academic experts to the institute.
Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore said: "Pushing the boundaries of knowledge and conquering new innovations are what our universities are known for the world over. This programme led by the University of Lincoln will give the UK another world first in Lincoln's centre for research into farming robotics.”
University of Lincoln receives significant funding from government's innovation grant
The University of Lincoln has received £6.4million to create a new global centre of excellence in agri-robotics.
Research at the centre, dubbed Lincoln Agri-Robotics, will focus on autonomous agri-robots that can efficiently tend, harvest and quality control high-value crops with reduced human intervention, improving agriculture productivity to meet the demands of a growing population.
The grant is a slice of the government’s £76m Expanding Excellence in England Fund, part of its wider industrial strategy to raise public and private sector R&D spend to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027.
First announced in February, Lincoln Agri-Robotics will expand two of the University’s specialist research groups – the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems, by bringing together the groups’ scientists into one specialist organisation.
Professor Andrew Hunter, Lincoln's deputy vice chancellor for research and innovation, said: "Agri-food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK – twice the scale of automotive and aerospace combined – supporting a food chain which generates a Gross Value Added (GVA) of £113bn, with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry.
"It is widely agreed that robotics will transform the food and farming industries in the coming years, as producers adapt to meet significantly increased global demand, but there is still so much research and development to be done.
"The creation of Lincoln Agri-Robotics is therefore extremely timely and positions Lincolnshire, and the UK, at the leading edge of research innovations in this truly global industry. RAAI technologies will facilitate a step change in agricultural productivity while reducing environmental impact, and this new centre of excellence will be at the forefront of that change."
The £6.4m grant will enable the headquarters for the research centre, develop a state of the art digital infrastructure, create specialist RAAI facilities and strengthen its pool of world-leading robotics researchers by bringing in a number of new academic experts to the institute.
Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore said: "Pushing the boundaries of knowledge and conquering new innovations are what our universities are known for the world over. This programme led by the University of Lincoln will give the UK another world first in Lincoln's centre for research into farming robotics.”
Wolds Beef
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@Bald Rick Can not like that! I am proud of my County!!
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renewablejohn
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Sure we used to employ robots for hoeing sugar beet back in the sixties in Lincolnshire. No intelligent human would be fool enough to do such a job for two weeks at a time.
Wolds Beef
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@renewablejohn Now your calling me a robot!! It had to be done!! So I did it along side the men as boy/teenager!!
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renewablejohn
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Same here I was conned into doing it.
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Join us @LondonPalladium on the 16th for beginning of UK business fight back
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