L-CAS is at #ICRA2026 in Vienna! 🇦🇹🤖 Great to see Emmanuel Arnaud SOUMO, Jacob Swindell, Prabuddhi Nipunika Wariyapperuma, Katherine James, Rajitha de Silva, Riccardo Polvara and Greg Cielniak representing our work across agricultural robotics, robot perception, field robotics, calibration, simulation, and autonomous systems. We are looking forward to a week of excellent talks, workshops, posters, discussions, and new collaborations with the international robotics community. Come and say hello if you see us around! 👋 #Robotics #AutonomousSystems #AgriculturalRobotics #FieldRobotics #RobotPerception #LCAS #UniversityOfLincoln
Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS)
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L-CAS is the University of Lincoln’s cross-disciplinary research group in robotics.
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Welcome to the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems Research (L-CAS), the University of Lincoln’s cross-disciplinary research group in robotics. L-CAS specialises in technologies for perception, learning, decision-making, control and interaction in autonomous systems, especially mobile robots and robotic manipulators, and the integration of these capabilities in application domains including * agri-food, * healthcare, * intelligent transportation, * logistics, * nuclear robotics, * service robotics, and * space robotics. We participate in a large number of collaborative research projects with other academic and industry partners, funded by the UK Research Councils, Innovate UK and Horizon 2020, among others. We are leading a new £6.9m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics, with the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, and are co-leads of a £6.3m award from the UK Government’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Fund to create Lincoln Agri-Robotics, a global centre of excellence for agricultural robotics; both in collaboration with the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology. We also collaborate closely with the Lincoln Institute for Health and the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, which are focussed on delivering real-world impact in those domains, and SAGA Robotics, originators of the Thorvald robot family. Our joint facilities include dedicated robotics research labs, a demonstration farm, an experimental food factory, a fleet of diverse mobile and social robots, advanced compliant robotic manipulators, a swarm of microrobots, and state-of-the-art agricultural robots. Our objective is to become one of the world’s great robotics labs, working on technologies for enhancing the quality of life, our health, wellbeing and the food we eat. Learn more about our research projects and meet the team or contact us .
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- Lincoln, LINCS
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- 2013
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- Robotics, Agri-Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Research, PhD training, and Autonomous Systems
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📢 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Dealing with the complex agricultural environment #ICRA2026 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gsVn-ZWr 🗓️ Date: Monday, June 1st, 2026: 0900 - 1730 📍 Venue: Room Stolz 0, VIECON – Vienna Congress & Convention Center, Vienna, Austria ⏱️ Program Schedule 🔹 0900: Welcome 🔹 0910: Field Robotics Across Agricultural Systems, Scales and Environments | Salah Sukkarieh 🔹 0935: Oral talks (3x) 🔹 1005: Poster pitches (9x) 🔹 1035: Coffee break + poster session 1 🔹 1105: Deployable Vision: Architecting Robust Computer Vision for Agricultural Robots | Lazaros Nalpantidis 🔹 1130: Open-World Robotics | Kris Hauser 🔹 1155: BeeRootBot: Biodegradable Robotic Probe for Subterranean Environment Monitoring and Rehabilitation | Sachin Sachin / Barbara Mazzolai 🔹 1220: Lunch 🔹 1340: New Robotic Opportunities Toward Sustainable Crop Production | Cyrill Stachniss 🔹 1405: Towards the Automation of Vineyard Operations with Robotics and AI | Claudio Semini 🔹 1430: Oral talks (3x) 🔹 1500: Poster pitches (10x) 🔹 1530: Coffee break + poster session 2 🔹 1600: Workshop: Future of Agricultural Robotics 🔹 1650: Conclusion on future of AgRobotics from I-CAR meeting | John Reid 🔹 1700: Fruit Spatial Distribution and Harvesting Speed: Effects and Mitigations | Stavros Vougioukas 🔹 1725: Closure of the workshop 👍 Editorial Board members of T‑FR are indicated with “(T‑FR)”. ⭐ Invited Speakers: Barbara Mazzolai, Claudio Semini, Cyrill Stachniss, Kris Hauser, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Salah Sukkarieh (T-FR), Stavros Vougioukas, and John Reid 👥 Organizers: Gert Kootstra, Grzegorz Cielniak, João Valente, Marija Popović (T-FR), and Maren Bennewitz #fieldrobotics, #agriculturalRobotics, #AgRobotics, #agriculturalrobots, #agriculturalenvironment, #agrifoodrobotics, #agriculturalsystems, #environmentmonitoring, #SustainableCropProduction, #VineyardOperations
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The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026 is almost here! 🚀 Looking forward to heading to Vienna for a week of robotics, interesting discussions, new ideas, and catching up with friends and colleagues from across the community. I'll be spending most of my time talking about agricultural robotics 🌱, field robotics 🚜, SLAM and localisation 🛰️, multi-robot systems 🤖🤖, and AI for autonomous systems. If you're attending and fancy a chat about research, collaborations, student opportunities, future projects, or just robotics in general, feel free to reach out or stop me for a coffee ☕. Looking forward to meeting familiar faces and making some new connections along the way. See you at #ICRA2026! 🇦🇹 #Robotics #AutonomousSystems #AgriculturalRobotics #FieldRobotics #SLAM #MultiAgentSystems #AI
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LCASTOR: Primed for Innovation at the Field Robot Event 2026! The Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) and Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) are thrilled to share an update on our LCASTOR team as they gear up for the Field Robot Event 2026! Our dedicated students have been meticulously preparing their autonomous field robot, honing its capabilities for the challenges ahead at Hochschule Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. The Field Robot Event is a fantastic platform for emerging talent in agricultural robotics to showcase their skills, and our team has been working tirelessly to ensure LCASTOR is in peak condition. Recent testing at the University of Lincoln grounds has allowed us to put the robot through its paces, fine-tuning its navigation, perception, and task execution systems in real-world conditions. These preparation tests are crucial for identifying any areas for improvement and making final adjustments before the main competition. We're incredibly proud of the hard work and ingenuity demonstrated by our students. Their commitment to advancing autonomous solutions in agriculture aligns perfectly with the mission of EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS and the broader goals of sustainable farming. A big thank you to the organizers of the Field Robot Event and institutions like DLG e.V. - German Agricultural Society for fostering such an important community for innovation. Many thanks to our sponsors EPSRC, Douglas Bomford Trust, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS. As well as an extra special thank you to Andy Newbold and EurAgEng - European Society of Agricultural Engineers for your support. We're looking forward to an exciting and successful event! #FieldRobotEvent #AgriculturalRobotics #AutonomousSystems #AgriTech #Innovation #LCAS #LIAT #LCASTOR #AnhaltUniversity #DLGFeldtage #Agriforwards
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Took a day off from staring at screens to smell the roses at Chelsea Flower Show. Somehow still ended up nerding out over YOLO and multispectral cameras used to monitor plant health 🌹📷 Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) MicaSense, an EagleNXT Company RealSense AI
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Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) researchers, students, and collaborators will be contributing a strong portfolio of papers and workshop presentations at #ICRA2026 in Vienna in two weeks' time. This year’s contributions span robot #perception, #agriculturalrobotics, #multimodal #learning, #calibration, #simulation, and #autonomoussystems, showcasing the breadth of research activity taking place across the University of Lincoln. In total, L-CAS will contribute seven papers across the main conference programme and associated workshops. 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 🔹 Keypoint Semantic Integration for Improved Feature Matching in Outdoor Agricultural Environments Authors: Rajitha de Silva, Jacob Swindell, Jonathan Cox, Marija Popović, Cesar Cadena, Cyrill Stachniss, Riccardo Polvara 📄 Paper: https://lnkd.in/e49t9eef 💻 Project page: https://lnkd.in/e5EFUkDf 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 🌾 ICRA Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Dealing with the Complex Agricultural Environment 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ex4XHkcm 🔹 Benchmarking Anomaly Detection for Agricultural Robots Using Proprioceptive Sensor Data Authors: Jonathan Cox, Elliot Smith, Ibrahim Hroob, Leonardo Guevara, Marc Hanheide, Grzegorz Cielniak 🕙 Presentation: 10:05 CEST 🔹 Harvest Complexity: A Metric for Evaluating Crop Architectures for Robotic Harvesting Authors: Katherine James, Grzegorz Cielniak 🕙 Presentation: 10:05 CEST 🔹 Calibration-Informative Region Selection for Online LiDAR–Camera Calibration in Agricultural Environments Authors: Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak 🕒 Presentation: 15:00 CEST 🔹 Design and Comparative Evaluation of Scissor-Type Gripper Architectures for Precision Robotic Strawberry Harvesting Authors: Emmanuel Arnaud SOUMO, Samuel Avila Cardenas, Grzegorz Cielniak 🕒 Presentation: 15:00 CEST 🔹 Droneulator: A Portable UAV Simulator for Agricultural Workflows with RotorPy and Godot 4 Authors: Jacob Swindell, Michael Lowen, Marija Popović, Riccardo Polvara 🕒 Presentation: 15:00 CEST 💻 GitHub: https://lnkd.in/ecggyx7h 🌐 ICRA 2026 Workshop on Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy (SRRA) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/du7ZcaXd 🔹 Semantics-Guided Multimodal Masked Autoencoder Pretraining for 3D BEV Object Detection Authors: Prabuddhi Nipunika Wariyapperuma, Rajitha de Silva, Marc Hanheide, Thomas Bohne, Leonardo Guevara 🗓 Friday 5 June 2026 🕑 Lightning talk: 14:55–15:35 CEST 🖼 Poster session: 15:35–15:55 CEST We want to congratulate all authors and collaborators involved, and we look forward to engaging with the wider robotics community in Vienna during ICRA 2026. #ICRA2026 #Robotics #AgriculturalRobotics #FieldRobotics #RobotPerception #AutonomousSystems #ComputerVision #MachineLearning #LCAS #UniversityOfLincoln
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We are delighted to announce that our ROBO✶CROPS: Plant Selection, Beyond the Visible exhibit has been awarded a prestigious RHS Silver-Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show, the second highest honour awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society. The medal was awarded to the University of Lincoln's Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology in collaboration with the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS). The award recognised the exhibit’s ambition, innovation, and contribution to horticultural science and STEM. What is the exhibit....? PhenAIx is our robotic plant phenotyping system, developed at Lincoln through a collaboration of crop, AI and robotics scientists. It measures observable characteristics of a plant; traits that reflect its genetic make-up and are used by plant breeders, agronomists and gardeners to select varieties for high yield, disease resilience, or aesthetic qualities such as vibrant colouring. Above all, we hope it helps inspire the next generation of roboticists' and crop scientists. This was our first attempt at Chelsea, putting us amongst some of the highest exhibition standards anywhere in the world. The team included Elizabeth Sklar, Marc Hanheide, James Wagstaffe, Simon Parsons, Rob Lloyd, Yoon Ju Cho, Ollie Hardy, Lyn Heaton, Paula Eves, Heather Smith and many others..with sponsorship from Pinnacle Plants, UR Robotics, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS, EPSRC, Research England, UKRI AI CDT SUSTAIN, CambridgeHOK
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PhenAIx Wins RHS Silver-Gilt Medal at Chelsea Flower Show 2026 We are delighted to announce that our ROBO✶CROPS: Plant Selection, Beyond the Visible exhibit has been awarded an RHS Silver-Gilt Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, the second highest honour awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society. The medal was awarded to the University of Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) in recognition of the exhibit's ambition, innovation, and contribution to horticultural science, a fantastic achievement for our joint…...
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Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) reposted this
🌱🤖 ROBO✶CROPS: Beyond the Visible is live at Chelsea Flower Show 2026! Our PhenAIx robot is scanning plants in real time, using AI, multi-spectral imaging and depth sensing to reveal what the human eye simply can't see. From leaf counts to NDVI, this is plant science transformed. This exhibit is the result of a fantastic collaboration between LIAT and Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS), bringing together roboticists, plant scientists, PhD students and professional staff from across the University of Lincoln Come and see us at the Show, or find out more 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eFHAEvR4 #ChelseaFlowerShow #AgriTech #Robotics #AI #PlantScience #PhenAIx
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Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) reposted this
We’re delighted to share that the University of Lincoln will be exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026. 🌱 Our exhibit, RoboCrops: Plant Selection, Beyond the Visible, will showcase how robotics, artificial intelligence and plant science are working together to shape a more sustainable future for horticulture. At the heart of the stand is PhenAIx - a robotic system that can reveal plant traits invisible to the human eye, helping researchers and growers better understand plant health, performance and resilience. We’re proud to be working alongside our partners to show how this technology is already being applied to address real-world challenges in horticulture and food production, while supporting the UK’s growing agri-tech ecosystem. Read more - https://lncn.ac/RHSChelsea CambridgeHOK Universal Robots #UniversityofLincoln #RHSChelseaFlowerShow2026 #Innovation #Robotics
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