September 2017
CORDIS has placed a web article about Sweeper on their website.
The SWEEPER consortium has established collaboration with the interdisciplinary H2020-project REELER. REELER aims to assure collaboration, comprehension and acceptance of SSH research-based knowledge about distributed responsibility, ethical and societal issues relating to robotics.
April 2017
Newsletter April 2017 about collecting image data to improve algorithms and visual servo control experiments.
November 2016
SWEEPER-paper is hot: the scientific paper “Design of an eye-in-hand sensing and servo control framework for harvesting robotics in dense vegetation”, is listed in the five most downloaded articles...read more.
February 2016
October 2015
May 27, 2015
World’s first pepper-picking robot heralds new era, has now been published in Horizon Magazine.
February 12, 2015
The Kick-off meeting SWEEPER was held on February 12th and 13th, 2015 in Wageningen, The Netherlands
February 4, 2015
Wageningen UR published a press release about the start of the SWEEPER project (English and Dutch)
February 1, 2015:
The official project start is 1st of February 2015.