The paper “Online Estimation of Table-Top Grown Strawberry Mass in Field Conditions with Occlusions,” led by Master’s student Jinshan Zhen, was accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025).
In May 2025, the HarvestFlex-I Strawberry Harvesting Robot was exhibited at the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum in Tianjin.
In May 2025, the lab’s Laser Weeding Robot and Pollination Robot won Excellence Awards among 100+ entries at the 2nd Xiong’an Future City Scenarios Competition – Smart Agriculture Track.
In May 2025, the HarvestFlex strawberry harvesting robot was demonstrated at the National Smart Agriculture Education Innovation Conference in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, attracting significant attention.
Dr. Xiong Ya and Dr. Lin Sen attended the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025) in Switzerland in April 2025, followed by an academic visit to EPFL.