EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Agri-Food Robotics: AgriFoRwArdS - Eden Attenborough

Eden Attenborough

  • University of East Anglia in collaboration with CHC Tech Limited

Research Interests

Sensor fusion and localization

Presentations

  • “Natural Language Understanding based on RAG towards a General-Purpose Service Robot” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.
  • “Exploration of LLM-Enhanced State-Machine function-calls for Planning Robot Actions” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • “Natural Language Understanding based on RAG towards a General-Purpose Service Robot” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

About me

My interest in robotics was sparked at the robotics club in my school, which was participated in the RoboCup Junior competition. Our team participated in the international finals in Hefei, China in 2015. Before starting in Lincoln I completed an integrated masters (MComp) degree in Computer Science at UEA. I was also the president of the Computer Science society at UEA from 2022-23. 

I’m looking forward to learning under experienced teachers in Lincoln and studying for my PhD at UEA- I’m also looking forward to help introduce technologies to aid in labour shortages in the agricultural sector, and help build a better world in an ethical  and sustainable way.  

Outside of robotics I enjoy tinkering with servers on my personal homelab, and going for long walks in the Norfolk countryside. 

MSc Project

Natural Language Understanding based on RAG towards a General-Purpose Service Robot

Making a robot capable of understanding commands (given by non-expert operators) requiring a wide range of different abilities and execute/respond according to its context, capabilities and knowledge about the workspace.