Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Meeting Room 7
October 14, 2024 (Halfday workshop: 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Submission deadline: September 30, 2024 11:59 pm PT
Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WARS2024
Demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel is rising due to an ever-growing world population. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies will play a key role in meeting the rising demands by improving the agricultural productivity of in a sustainable manner. In recent years, we have seen impressive advances in agricultural robotics aiming to address various problems in agriculture such as crop and livestock monitoring, harvesting, spraying, weeding, cover crop planting, and more. Further advancement in these robotic systems requires a collaborative effort in various areas such as novel robot mechanisms and design, as well as robust algorithms for perception, planning, and control to tackle the large variability in agricultural environments. In addition, it is also necessary to enable discussion between researchers, industry professionals, and end-users such as crop scientists and farmers to identify the economic and sociological barriers to the adoption of robots in agriculture.
This workshop focuses on recent developments in agricultural robotics and automation. The goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and methodologies for using robotics to address real-world challenges in agricultural production to enable a sustainable future. This is in line with IROS 2024’s mission of ‘Robotics for Sustainable Development’. To achieve this, we will focus on the following two key themes: 1) Farm of the Future: Advancing Agriculture through Robotics, and 2) Bridging Research and Practice: Commercializing Agricultural Robotics for Sustainable Farming.
