Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process of exposing their data as Linked Open Data (LOD) to encourage reuse of this information in semantic aware services which utilize the synergy t...

This paper describes the architecture and implementation of a distributed autonomous gardening system with applications in urban/indoor precision agriculture. The garden is a mesh network of robots and plants. The gardening robots are mobile manipulators with an eye-in-hand camera. They are capable of locating plants in the garden, watering them, and locating and grasping fruit. The plants are ...

Food waste is one of the main problems in our society. This is mainly caused by people's behaviors and attitudes, which influence the whole food chain, from production to final consumption. In fact, food is generally perceived as a commodity by adults, who transmit this behavior to children, who in turn do not develop any consciousness about food's source. One way to reduce the problem seems to...