Talks & Media

Talks, media coverage, demos, and outreach.

Talks and presentations

  • ACFR Seminar (Oct 2025): “Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-scale Agricultural Environments.” Seminar page · IEEE paper · arXiv

  • ICRA 2025 Workshop on Field Robotics (May 2025): Selected as an Emerging Researcher to deliver a spotlight talk. Event page

  • NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) Talk (Feb 2025): Presented on AgTech robotics and smart sensors. Event report

  • DSI Digital Transformation Colloquium (29 May 2024): Presented research on autonomous soil sampling and analysis in agriculture. Event report

Media coverage

CNN Tech for Good (December 2025)

Meet SwagBot, an AI-powered agriculture robot that runs with the herd

Series: CNN Tech for Good, reported by Kristie Lu Stout

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CNN segment page

Reuters (December 2024)

Meet SwagBot, the AI-powered robot cattle herder preventing soil degradation

Coverage of the University of Sydney’s agricultural robotics research.

Reuters article

Field demonstrations

Student outreach

See Students for school visits, work-experience projects and student rover-team activities.