British Telecom (BT) last week announced its participation in the UK government-led Robotics Highways programme, which aim to provide a robotics platform and management system for its stakeholders. Robotics Highways is a research and development project which seeks to develop use cases for IoT devices and robotics for agriculture. Funded through Innovate-UK, the project is led by Saga Robotics and counts the Universities of Lincoln and Reading, the Manufacturing Technology Centre, two soft-fruit agriculture businesses, and BT as its partners. Saga Robotics is a spin-out from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, which had explored, and developed, use cases for robotics in agriculture. These efforts culminated in Thorvald, a modular robotics platform, which can be readily customized to support different…