Robotics For Food Processing

A company in the Netherlands, Lacquey, has developed a robot that can pick up, orient, and core a cabbage. What's the big deal about that? vegetables and fruits are much more inconsistent in shape than manufactured parts. Machines can much more easily recognize a manufactured part, pick it up, and install it somewhere. Amazon recently held a contest for robots to pick up goods from shelves since that work is still done by humans in Amazon warehouses. The robots did not do well enough to pose a threat to humans who do this work currently. But given that a robot can handle a cabbage I expect warehouse goods picking to fall to robots. Wondering if your job will be automated...

Source: FuturePundit - June 2, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs