The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Jake's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Jake
After graduating with a FC (Hons) MEng in Robotics, Jake started working at an Agri-tech start up called “Fieldwork Robotics” in Plymouth before then completing a robotic tomato harvester project in Shanghai, China. He then worked with television production crews developing robots for tv shows & documentaries, founded a robotics R&D firm in Cornwall called “Robotriks Ltd” which has completed 28 successful commercial and research projects ranging from breathing assists for young children to smart materials and metal 3D printers, all whilst specialising the business on developing a new, in-house manufactured, Agri robotic platform. Alongside this, at the University of Plymouth, Jake was promoted from the Technical Robotic lead to Associate Lecturer in advanced robot design & prototyping, then to the Knowledge Exchange Manager for the Devon Agri-tech Accelerator (DATA) project assisting businesses across the county to integrate advanced electronic sensing and autonomous robotic systems into their practises to boost productivity. He then worked on work package 4 of the Recon Soil project developing robotic platforms which can autonomously map and analyse soil conditions. Following the success of this, Jake then became the lead engineer for the Agri Environmental Space Living Lab project building a custom robot deployment vehicle lab which includes state of the art connectivity and compute for deploying, operating and processing live data in real time through custom AI models all locally from within the lab. After that, he became the Technical Lead and Knowledge Exchange Manager for the Agri-Robotics Cornwall and Smart-AG projects, developing new controlled growing environment technology whilst deploying terrestrial and aerial robotic platforms for environmental monitoring and analysis to further increase productivity both internally and externally for a range of farm businesses across Cornwall. Jake continues to be the director of Robotriks Ltd and is now the Lecturer in Applied Robotics at the university of Plymouth.
