The AI for Agro-Food Lab centers its research on three core themes: smart crop and animal sensing, intelligent control and decision making, and robotic handling.
To drive these advancements, the lab leverages key technical AI components, focusing primarily on:
With a commitment to socially aware, explainable, and responsible systems.
The AI for Agro-Food Lab is dedicated to bridging the gap between technical AI research and sustainable agricultural practice.
The lab’s mission and vision are to build the fundamental knowledge base, technological tools, and human capacities necessary to transition to a new generation of ecology-based sustainable production systems supported and enhanced by smart, tailored technology.
The impact of the lab lies in accelerating a comprehensive sociotechnical transition, achieved by validating breakthroughs directly in live agricultural settings alongside industrial partners, fostering young scientific entrepreneurship, and embedding socially aware, explainable, and responsible AI frameworks to build trust across the agrotech ecosystem.
Smart crop and animal sensing – Developing dedicated sensors for applications in horticulture, dairy farming and arable farming.
Intelligent control and decision making – Developing sustainable methods for customizable autonomous decision-making and management support of specific farming challenges.
Robotic handling – Developing algorithms to enable the accomplishment of the robot actuation tasks.
Avular is a robotics company for drones and applications.
Connecterra is a technology company for sensor and management systems in dairy products.
IMEC is a Belgian R&D hub for nano- and digital technologies.
Provincie Flevoland is a regional government with interest in agriculture.
Kubota is a manufacturer of farming equipment and electronic solutions.
Leafteasers is a consultancy, certification and business accelerator in energy and agriculture.
Lely is a company for advanced milking, feeding and bar cleaning equipment for dairy cows
NanoPHAB is a company for nanophotonic optical sensing and integrated spectometry.
NXP Semiconductors is a company for integrated circuits for radio-frequency applications.
OnePlanet is a research center for chip and digital technology innovations in food, agriculture and health.
Sensor Sense is a company dedicated to high sensitive laser-based trace gas instrumentation.
Settels Savenije is a company for opto-mechanical product design and manufacturing.
Signify is a company for lighting solutions for greenhouses.
