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.
CEO
Dr. Sebastian Pütz
CTO
Malte kl. Piening
COO
Gerrit Woeckner
CSO
Sven Lake
AI Software Engineer
Christopher Bröcker
Robot Software Engineer
Marvin Schulte
Robot Software Engineer
Matthias Holoch
Robot Hardware Engineer
Manuel Ballmann
Student Software Engineer
Timo Dobrowolski
Student Worker Design
Caroline Diersmann
Advisory Board
Marc Matthaeus
Strategic advisor and operations leader supporting B2B tech and manufacturing companies. Spent 15 years at AGCO Corporation, serving as Vice President & General Manager of the Hay & Forage product line, Vice President of the Global Strategy & Integration function, and Director & Strategic Coach for the North American region.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
