Forbes August 11, 2025
It was a blink and you’ll miss it moment – an academic job posting on LinkedIn, the type of thing most people would just scroll by and then read about someone who is “humbled and honored” to be doing something. But for those of us paying attention to the embodied robotics space, it was definitely worth a pause. The University of Lincoln in the UK was looking for someone to develop a “revolutionary gamified Virtual Reality environment where non-experts can train AI-powered harvesting robots through bodily demonstrations, eliminating the need for complex programming or field-based training.” Long story short, the aim is to replace field workers with machines – but it is likely these machines will be powered by humans...
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