Robotic base
- 8 degrees of freedom.
- Modular end effectors.
Vertical Farming Robot.
CREATE Lab, EPFL - Research Fellowship
April 2025-Jan 2026
Plants go through multiple growth stages, each demanding unique interactions. An agricultural robot must adapt to these changes to enable autonomous crop management.
Approach
- Vertical hydroponics enables space-efficient indoor farming, creating an ideal environment for robotic automation.
- Use grippers adapted to each growth stage of the plant lifecycle: planting, monitoring, and harvesting.
Combined system
- Automatic hydroponic system.
- Plant indexing using markers.
- Computer vision for plant detection.
Teleoperation
- For complex tasks.
- Pathway for imitation learning.
Results
- Precise planting and monitoring.
- Successful harvesting of different plant types.
First author paper submitted to the International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS 2026).