The robotics group

Robotics engineer working on sonication robot

About the robotics group

The robotics group at NMBU consists of about 25 researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology. The main research areas are agricultural robotics and food automation.

Researchers from the robotics group participate in a number of groundbreaking research projects within precision agriculture and food production. The group is known for developing the autonomous agricultural robot Thorvald.

Several of the courses in the five-year master's programme in applied robotics at NMBU are taught by members of the robotics group.

Latest

Two open positions

The robotics group at NMBU has two open positions, one as Researcher within robotics and/or control, and one as Project Management Officer.

RoBUTCHER releases its open source RGB-D dataset

The RoBUCHER team has released its dataset on pork sectioning. It comprises a set of container files called “Bag Files” in which every file includes 30 colour images, 30 depth images, and colour and depth sensors information.

PhD candidate wins best presentation at International Sensors Conference

The work entitled “Vibration Measurement as Feedback from a Pneumatic Knife” authored by Dmytro Romanov, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Olga Korostynska and Alex Mason was presented at 14^th International Conference of Sensing Technology by Dmytro Romanov. The conference was organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India and held virtually due to travel restrictions.

Research group at the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Main research areas are agricultural robotics and food automation.
Participates in a number of research projects within agriculture and food production.

Contact information

Visit us at Campus Ås

Agricultural robotics lab:
TF4-103, Kajaveien 4

Food automation lab:
TF1-114, Kajaveien 5

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Agricultural robotics team:
Pål Johan From

Food automation team:
Alex Mason

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