Dr Christopher Lehnert earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Queensland and subsequently completed his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Following his doctoral studies, he remained at QUT as a post-doctoral researcher and now serves as a Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Chief Investigator at both the QUT Centre for Robotics and the Australian Cobotics Centre.
Dr Lehnert has been involved in numerous innovative projects, including Moving to See, Reaching in Clutter using Force and Tactile Feedback, A robotic site-specific crop and weed management tool and the development of Harvey, the Robotic Capsicum Harvester. One of the early highlights of his career was participating and winning the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge.
He led the now-completed Robotic Vertical Farming Systems project for the Future Food Systems CRC and has also completed the Autonomous Robotic Platforms for Greenhouses project, a collaboration with national vegetable grower and FFSCRC industry partner P’Petual Holdings. Dr Lehnert is now leading exciting work in developing a robotic banana de-handing system in the project Banana Dehanding Tech.
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