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Food Robot Turns Heads in Tokyo

by Kevin Fogarty | Submitted Friday Nov 13, 2009 [12:25 PM]


Fanuc Robotic's new high-speed food-picking robot arm, which were the first to pass USDA hygiene requirements and got the company an approving nod from analysts at Robotics Business Review for the innovation, are designed to pick primary and packaged food at speeds as high as 120 cycles per minute. It can’t make the sushi, in other words, but it can assemble and present it at hygiene levels acceptable for food preparation under U.S. regulations.

Its greaseless, sealed design resists food and bacterial buildup and allows it to be washed down easily with chemicals allowed in food preparation environments.

It uses FANUC’s PickTool software to let owners configure its motions, and a two-dimensional vision system called FANUC iRVision to identify and assemble food components.

Mmmm. Sushi.



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Tags:chef  automation  food+preparation  sanitary  USDA  Fanuc  robot+arm 

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