AgRimate was recently presented in two workshops at the European Robotics Forum on March 23rd to 27th in Stavanger, Norway. The event is the leading event for the European robotics and AI community, bringing together over 1,000 participants from industry, academia, and the public sector.
The project was represented by Leire Bastida Merino, Project Coordinator and Head of the Visual and Multimodal Interaction team at Tecnalia R&I. Leire was present at the workshops WS 1 – Advanced Robotics, Sensing and Digital Twins for Sustainable Agriculture and WS 18 – Who’s Guiding Whom? Human‐in‐the‐Loop AI for Reconfigurable Systems.
Workshop WS 1 – Advanced Robotics, Sensing and Digital Twins for Sustainable Agriculture focused on recent advancements in agricultural robotics, sensing technologies, and digital‑twin approaches, with an emphasis on solutions already validated in the field or close to commercial deployment. The workshop covered a wide range of robotic systems for agriculture, including mobile platforms for environmental monitoring, specialized harvesting and thinning robots, autonomous ground and aerial vehicles for scouting and spraying, robotic manipulators for canopy‑level tasks, stationary and gantry systems for controlled environments, and coordinated multi‑robot approaches.
As part of the program, TECNALIA and TAU presented the talk “Assisted and Autonomous Pruning Systems for High‑Value Crops: Robotics Insights from AgRimate.” In this session, we contributed by highlighting the key challenges and opportunities in developing robotic pruning systems, discussing our work on sensing, perception, and manipulation strategies tailored to vineyards.
Workshop WS 18 – Who’s Guiding Whom? Human‑in‑the‑Loop AI for Reconfigurable Systems, a session dedicated to exploring how human guidance, formal knowledge representation, and AI‑based assistants can support reconfiguration, transparency, and trust in real industrial environments. The workshop brought together examples from manufacturing, agriculture, and medical domains to illustrate how AI assistants and agentic systems can collaborate with humans of different expertise levels, interpret multimodal context through XR, graphical interfaces, voice, or projection systems, and dynamically adapt to disruptions.
TECNALIA presented the AgRimate project, focusing specifically on the olive‑sector pilots and demonstrating the use of augmented reality (AR) and exoskeletons (exos) to support pruning task. In this context, we contributed by presenting how human‑in‑the‑loop principles are being integrated into AgRimate’s workflow, highlighting how AR tools enhance operator guidance and situational awareness, and how exoskeletons can improve ergonomics and performance during labor‑intensive field operations. We shared practical insights on combining AI assistance with human expertise in agriculture, engage in discussions about adaptive and trustworthy AI systems, and explore opportunities for cross‑domain collaboration on human‑centered, reconfigurable technologies.