Field Robotics Center Seminar
Srdjan Acimovic
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech

Using Robotics, Imaging and AI to Tackle Apple Fruit Production: Crop Harvest and Fire Blight Disease, The Two Major Bottlenecks for U.S. Apple Producers

CIC CIC Buuilding Conference Room 1, LL Level

Abstract Temperate tree fruit production is a significant agricultural sector in the United States, encompassing a variety of fruits like apples, pears, cherries, peaches and plums. The U.S. is the second-largest producer of apples in the world, after China. Annual U.S. production is 10 - 11 billion pounds of apple. However, apple production is complicated [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Senior Field Robotics Specialist
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

A retrospective, 40 Years of Field Robotics

CIC CIC Buuilding Conference Room 1, LL Level

Abstract: Chuck has been building and deploying robots in the field for the past 40 years.  In this retrospective he will touch on the robots, people and experiences that have been part of the journey.  From the early days in the 1980s with the Three Mile Island nuclear robots and the first outdoor autonomy robots [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer
Shield AI

From Lab to Launch

CIC CIC Buuilding Conference Room 1, LL Level

Bio: Nathan Michael is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer and a former Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, Nathan was the Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab, a research lab dedicated to improving the performance and reliability of artificially intelligent and autonomous systems that operate in [...]