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Craig Baillie is a leading researcher at the intersection of agricultural engineering and food processing automation, with a primary focus on integrating robotics and sensing technologies into complex, real-world production environments. His work is defined by two major contributions: advancing autonomous systems for broad-acre agriculture and pioneering novel sensing solutions for the red meat processing industry. Baillie’s comprehensive reviews on agricultural automation, particularly his 2019 paper on autonomous technologies in agricultural equipment (with 25 citations), have become foundational references for the field, synthesizing progress in vehicle guidance, steering control, and implement automation. He has further extended this expertise into the challenging domain of meat processing, where his 2023 review on robotics and sensing (27 citations) and his feasibility study on tactile sensing for tissue discrimination (12 citations) demonstrate innovative approaches to automating traditionally manual, hazardous tasks. By addressing critical gaps in on-farm communications and connectivity in his 2018 review, Baillie has also helped chart the path toward fully integrated, multi-robot farming systems. His work is essential reading for anyone interested in the practical deployment of robotics to enhance safety, efficiency, and productivity in both agriculture and food manufacturing.