The overarching aim of STAR is to bring together robotics, autonomous systems and AI research activities that are focused on agriculture and the food production pipeline as an application domain.

The STAR team comprises members from fifteen universities and industry representatives, distributed nationally, who will work towards achieving five primary objectives:

1. raising the profile of agri-food production within national and international robotics research communities as a challenging and impactful application domain
2. planning a national test facility for benchmarking and demonstrating new agri-food technologies
3. informing policymakers about the need for and benefits of intelligent, autonomous technologies within the food production industry
4. engaging the public about the role of robots to secure higher-quality, healthier, more environmentally friendly and more affordable food
5. the types of new and different job profiles emerging within the burgeoning agri-food technology sector.

Contact us: Professor Elizabeth Sklar, Project Lead, ESklar@lincoln.ac.uk

Partners

1. Loughborough
2. Manchester
3. Lincoln
4. Kings College London
5. Cambridge
6. Sheffield
7. Royal Agri Uni
8. Liverpool
9. University of East Anglia
10. Oxford
11. Nottingham
12. Reading
13. University of the West of England Bristol
14. Harper Adams
15. Digital Farming Ltd