Agri-OpenCore is the anchor for ROS in the Field: Building Open Agri-Food Robotics Together, a workshop organised by the University of Lincoln at ROSCon UK 2026 in Edinburgh on Thursday 22 October 2026, 14:30 to 18:00.
The programme includes:
- Fleet management and coordination with ROS and OpenRMF (Roboverse).
- ROS in autonomous crop treatment in horticulture (Saga Robotics).
- An introduction to Agri-OpenCore and its shared ROS 2 components (Professor Marc Hanheide, University of Lincoln).
- Hands-on demonstrations: camera and LiDAR late fusion for 3D tracking of people with the AGHRI dataset, and training and deploying the universal fruit detector.
- The announcement of the Field Robot Event 2027 and a community discussion on future challenges.
Bring a laptop to try Dockerised AOC components. You can also try topological navigation in your browser with nothing to install.
Full details: workshop page.