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 Workshop Objectives and Information

As the world population rapidly grows [from 7.5 billion today] to 9.6 billion in 2050, it is becoming more important to build sustainable supply chains to keep producing high-quality foods. Improved sustainability could be achieved by methods that are highly productive, cost-effective, and environment-friendly whilst foods are processed from acquisition to consumption. Although recent advances in AI and robotics have shown significant potential, many tasks in the current design of food production still rely heavily on human labours and capabilities only. The aim of this workshop is thus to bring together world-leading roboticists and AI practitioners to discuss novel approaches to deploying robotic solutions in the food system throughout the sessions focused on (1) Farming, (2) Processing/Distribution, (3) Cooking/Serving, and (4) Legislation. These will help not only obtain a holistic understanding of the entire supply chain but also find related research questions from different domains (e.g., manipulating soft objects in fruit picking or sandwich making) at one venue. Therefore, TIG-IV will offer a great overview of the state-of-theart through a series of invited talks and paper/poster presentations. Moreover, active participation will be encouraged to collectively identify useful insights and desired directions for future research in the community. 

In particular, since its first event at IROS2018, the TIG workshop has been growing successfully through TIG-II at RSS2019 and TIG-III at ICRA2021 expanding its scope from robotic manipulation to perception, navigation, learning, and soft robotics particularly in agricultural applications. Now, by partnering with the organisers of successful agri-robotics workshops at ECMR2021 and ICRA2022,  TIG-IV finally takes another step further at ICRA2023 to cover all kinds of advanced robotic technologies for unique stages of "agri-food" system from farm to fork.

Any Questions?

Please send an email to TIG4ICRA2023@gmail.com