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China Agricultural University (CAU) stands at the forefront of intelligent agriculture, pioneering research that bridges cutting-edge robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence with the urgent demands of modern food production. With a research portfolio spanning autonomous harvesting robots, precision sensing, and underwater multi-robot systems, CAU has established itself as one of China's most influential institutions for agri-robotics and smart farming innovation. The university's most celebrated contributions center on agricultural perception and automation. Its landmark 2019 work applying Mask-RCNN to strawberry harvesting in unstructured environments has accumulated over 620 citations, becoming a cornerstone reference for fruit-detection research worldwide. Complementing this, CAU researchers have produced highly regarded reviews on deep learning for multiscale agricultural sensing, machine vision-based robot navigation, and weeding robot technologies — works that collectively reflect the institution's commitment to synthesizing and advancing the global state of the art. Their development of real-time picking-point localization for ridge-planting strawberry robots and deep learning-based tomato classification systems further demonstrates a strong pipeline from foundational research to deployable agricultural solutions. Beyond field robotics, CAU has made notable contributions to underwater autonomous systems, including comprehensive surveys on AUV path planning, underwater robot positioning, and multi-robot coordination — reflecting a surprisingly broad robotics mandate. Research into novel materials such as ferromagnetic liquid metal putties and functional hydrogels also hints at an emerging interest in soft robotics and flexible actuators. With publications consistently appearing in top-tier journals and a citation record demonstrating sustained international impact, CAU offers prospective students and collaborators a dynamic, application-driven environment where robotics research directly confronts global challenges in food security, sustainable agriculture, and autonomous systems.