Claus G. Smitt

I am a very passionate robotics engineer/researcher/maker, standing right at the intersection of 3D computer vision and machine learning, currently pushing the boundaries satellite geospatial reasoning for agriculture at Degas.

I did my Ph.D. at the AgRobotics Lab (University of Bonn), focusing on 3D neural scene understanding for agricultural robots, and I am currently looking for new challenges.

I also worked on AI perception and autonomy for yard trucks at Outrider, cleaning robots at iRobot and inspection quadrotors at CNEA. I received my Electrical Engineering Degree from Universidad Nacional de Rosario and my Master’s from Instituto Balseiro, both in Argentina.

When not tinkering with cutting edge tech you can find me in nature climbing, slacklining, hiking, skiing and sometimes juggling.

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Selected Publications

Below are my most relevant papers. Find a complete list in my extended CV.

PAg-NeRF is a fast and efficient 3D panoptic representation suitable for challenging agricultural scenarios.

We leverages spatial-temporal cues available in most agricultural robots to improve crop monitoring tasks.

PATHoBot is an autonomous crop surveying and intervention robot for glasshouse environments that can gather high quality data and estimate key phenotypic parameters.

Presentations & Interviews

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