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Simone Pascuzzi is at the forefront of agricultural robotics, specializing in the development of intelligent autonomous systems for precision farming. His research focuses on integrating advanced perception, navigation, and deep learning into unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to revolutionize traditional agricultural tasks. Pascuzzi’s most impactful contribution is his work on in-field fruit identification, where he developed a semi-supervised deep learning framework enabling a farmer robot to automatically detect and count pomegranates—a breakthrough for precision harvesting and phenotyping (24 citations). He has also advanced autonomous navigation, simulating a four-wheeled robot for soil fertilization in open fields using ROS environments (7 citations), and provided comprehensive overviews of agricultural UGVs (12 citations) and UVC disinfection rovers (5 citations). His work demonstrates how robotic platforms can make operations faster, more effective, and sustainable. By bridging computer vision, robotics, and agronomy, Pascuzzi is helping to shape a future where autonomous ground vehicles become indispensable tools for crop monitoring, health assessment, and targeted field interventions, offering scalable solutions for modern agriculture’s labor and efficiency challenges.