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Workshop on Agricultural Soft Robotics

RoboSoft 2021

April 12th

Fully Virtual Event
Description
Description

United Nations predicts the world population will grow from 7.3 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, which will increase the food demand and the number of growers drastically. In contrast, framers will need to reach an impressive food production level to feed a growing world population. They need to adopt multifaceted businesses with stunning new technologies to increase efficacy on farms with minimal human resources. Here, we propose a workshop on Agricultural Soft Robotics by aiming to increase soft roboticist, agronomist, and biologist participation. We believe Agricultural Soft Robotics (ASR) could bring a paradigm shift in agricultural technologies and play a vital role in building next-generation fundamental agriculture technologies and exploring related science. ASR could help develop soil sensing and monitoring technologies, in situ root robotic phenotyping and genotyping, delicate and precise high-throughput crop manipulation, specific sensing and design and next-gen harvesting robots. The present workshop aims to bring leading researchers from biology, agronomy and robotics to a single platform and integrate the fundamental science to build a radical agricultural robotics community. We will discuss the state of the art, key challenges and develop the ASR research community to find a new research path through this workshop. The workshop will include a series of presentation sessions on agriculture science, current agricultural robotic technologies, a panel discussion to identify key issues and short poster teaser sessions on key developments.

Orgarnizers
Orgarnizers

Robert F. Shepherd

Cornell University

Barbara Mazzolai

 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Cornell University

Anand Mishra

Chongchan Kim

Cornell University

Speaker
Panel Experts
Panel Experts
Robotics
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Robert Shepherd, Cornell Univ., USA
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Barbara Mazzolai, IIT, Italy
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Cecilia Laschi, NUS, Singapore
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Girish Krishnan, UIUC, USA
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Kirstin Petersen, Cornell Univ., USA
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Marcello Calisti, University of Lincoln, UK
Biology
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Taryn Bauerle, Cornell Univ., USA
Michael Gore, Cornell Univ., USA
Agronomy
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Katie Gold, Cornell Univ., USA
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Yu Jiang, Cornell Univ., USA
Schedule

Schedule

April 12

EST

8:50 - 9:00

Meet & Greet

9:00 - 10:20

Agricultural Soft Robots:

Design and manufacturing

Marcello Calisti

Kathryn Daltorio

Robert Shepherd

10:20 - 10:30

Poster Session 1

10:30 - 11:00

Networking break

11:00 - 12:20

Biological Science for Agriculture

Taryn Baurale

Katie Gold

Michael Gore

12:20 - 12:30

Poster Session 2

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch break 

Yu Jiang

13:30 - 14:50

Agricultural Soft Robots:

Multifaceted sensing and control

Kirstin Petersen

Girish Krishnan

14:50 - 15:00

Poster Session3

15:00 - 15:30

Networking break

15:30 - 16:25

Panel Discussion

Panel Experts

16:25 - 16:30

Closing remark

Free Registration

Workshop on Agricultural Soft robotics

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Call for Posters 

We invite submissions to our poster session

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Contact Us

Contact Us

Anand Mishra

Chongchan Kim

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