Farm Robotics Challenge
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Join the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge!
Applications are open! Apply by Jan. 17, 2024
We're launching Year 3 of the Farm Robotics Challenge – an annual competition for undergraduate and graduate student teams. Through the challenge, teams identify and solve real-world agricultural problems using cutting-edge robotics or drone technology.
Why join the challenge? It's all about engaging students in real-world applications and driving technological innovation in agriculture.
Over a period of 4 to 5 months, student teams employ and develop the latest AI, automation, and robotics tools to solve on-farm problems.
Gain valuable experience and compete for over $20K in prizes:
- Cash prizes for the winning teams and special award categories
- Innovation Award to accelerate commercialization
- Travel awards to attend the FIRA-USA ag tech conference in California
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About
The Farm Robotics Challenge was launched in 2023 as an innovative 4-month-long competition that invites student teams from universities and colleges across the United States to develop solutions for on-farm challenges using robotics. In its inaugural year, 19 teams from 12 universities and colleges created creative engineering solutions on the farm-ng Amiga robotic platform.
Year 2 culminated in October 2024 with winners announced at the annual FIRA conference.
For more information, please visit the Farm Robotics Challenge website. Organized by the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) and UC ANR, with support from Fresno-Merced Future of Food (F3) Innovation, this challenge presents real-life farm automation scenarios for students to gain hands-on experience with the practical application of robotics in agriculture.
For more info, make sure to check out this program's main website at https://farmbot.ai/.