Adam Binch
Senior Robotics Engineer at SAGA ROBOTICS // THORVALD
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Binch is a Senior Robotics Engineer with eight years of experience applying machine learning and autonomous navigation to agricultural robotics, currently developing intelligent capabilities for the Thorvald platform at SAGA Robotics. His work spans perception, optimisation and software integration—having built weed recognition and UV-C treatment navigation systems that move research prototypes into field-ready robots. Adam’s background bridges cognitive science and engineering (PhD and MSc in cognitive and computational neuroscience), which informs a research-driven approach to long-term robot learning and qualitative spatial reasoning. He has contributed toolchains for robot perception in academia and industry, and uniquely combines hands-on systems engineering with project leadership to deliver practical automation for farms and vineyards.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 2:1 at The University of Sheffield
English
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Github Skills (11)
robot10
ros8
webots7
robotics6
matlab6
normalization6
monitor5
python4
evolutionary-algorithms4
tmux2
mqtt1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SAGARobotics/sentor
May 2021 - Jun 2023
Monitor ROS topics
Contributions:7 reviews, 21 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 1 month
roboticsmonitorros2webotsros
SAGARobotics/topological_navigation
Feb 2022 - May 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 90 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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