Team

We are an agile team of experts in AI and robotics, with over 10 years of experience in the robotics industry and more than 15 years in agricultural machinery. Our passion is to blend technology with nature to create intelligent, nature-inspired solutions that benefit both industry and the environment. With our extensive expertise in automation and a strong commitment to sustainability, we work as innovators at the forefront of our field.

Nature Robots Team Photo
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CEO

Dr. Sebastian Pütz
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CTO

Malte kl. Piening
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COO

Gerrit Woeckner
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CSO

Sven Lake
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AI Software Engineer

Christopher Bröcker
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Robot Software Engineer

Marvin Schulte
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AI Software Engineer

Krupal Shah
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Robot Software Engineer

Matthias Holoch
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Robot Hardware Engineer

Manuel Ballmann
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Student Software Engineer

Timo Dobrowolski
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Student Worker Design

Caroline Diersmann
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Student Bachelor Thesis

Pascal Klein Helmkamp

Advisory Board

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Prof. Dr. Karin Schnitker

Prof. in Business Management at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. 15 years in various nat. / int. business roles. After various management roles Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture and co-project manager of the university's Startuplab@HS.

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Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg

Prof. for Computer Science, Robotics and AI at Osnabrück University. Managing Director, German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Niedersachsen. Head, Plan-Based Robot Control research department at DFKI. Research fields: AI, Robot Control, and their applications in agriculture.

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Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard

Prof. in Robotics and AI and Founding Chair of the Engineering Department at Technical University of Nuremberg. Fellow of ECCAI and AAAI. Member of Leopoldina and Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2009.

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene

Prof. for Intelligent Agriculture Systems at University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. Head of the DFKI competence center Smart Agriculture Technologies. Project leader of Gaia-X research project Agri-Gaia. Research fields: Autonomous robot navigation and 3D data processing.

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Erik Pekkeriet

Programme Manager Vision + Robotics at Wageningen University & Reserach. Founding father and network coordinator of agROBOfood. Chair of the topic group Agricultural Robots at EU Robotics. Chair at Greenhouse Horticultuire section at Dutch Society of Technology in Agriculture. Advisory board member of the European Machine Vision Forum

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Prof. Dr. Dieter Trautz

Prof. for agroecology and environmentally friendly land management: Cultivation in organic farming, mixed crops, precision farming in organic farming, technology transfer organic farming - conventional farming, climate change - effects on land management

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Prof. Nick Hawes, PhD

Prof. in AI and Robotics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute. Leads the GOALS research group. Research into long-term autonomy, mission planning for mobile robots, and sequential decision-making under uncertainty.