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

RoBUTCHER makes significant steps forward

After some pauses due to COVID-19, workshops in the RoBUTCHER project were able to continue, demonstrating some of the key developments going on in the project, including advancement with the core infrastructure, gripping, cutting and AI sub-systems.

RoBUTCHER @ European Robotics Forum 2021

The team working on Food Automation @ NMBU REALTEK were proud to be involved in the European Robotics Forum (ERF) on 13-15 April 2021. Our workshop proposal, a collaboration between NMBU and our partners at Óbuda University in Hungary, focussed mainly on the areas of Agri-food, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

ARISE

ARISE (Agricultural Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Ecosystem) is a new agri-food robotics initiative led by the robotics group at NMBU.

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

Contact us

Agricultural robotics team:
Pål Johan From

Food automation team:
Alex Mason

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