Thought Leadership Event: Dr Fumiya Iida on "Agri-Food Robot Revolution"

Thought Leadership Event
Speaker: Dr Fumiya Iida, Bio-inspired Robotics Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Title: Agri-Food Robot Revolution

Agriculture and food supply is the largest industry in the UK, but it faces significant challenges of transformation needs because of wage increase, geopolitical uncertainties (Brexit) and health and safety concerns (COVID-19). 

Despite the increasing demands, the automation of processes that are currently being performed by human labourers is not trivial for many reasons, not only the cost and the efforts, but also the fundamental lack of technologies.

In this talk, FumiyaI introduced the team’s efforts to analyse the landscape of challenges in the agri-food sectors from the technologist’s viewpoint and discussed what the problems that we can solve today are, as well as the challenges for the future.