If a robot can remove bones from fresh chickens and keep the skin, is there anything it can't do? Maybe it can challenge itself to remove bones from the fish. Actually to make the robot has the ability to process chickens of different size and weight, and remove the bones without destroying the meat and skin, it is required to have accurate sense of space, which is the cutting-edge technology in the robots field indeed.

At present, Georgia institute of technology has developed a system, which can finish the boning process automatically with the use of advanced image technology and mechanical arm. It may make revolutionary impact on the poultry processing market. It adopts a 3D video system to decide where to cut, and then the mechanical arm will implement the boning process precisely, which can avoid the bone scraps left in chickens effectively.

According to the announcement of Gary McMurray, the head of food processing department at Georgia institute of technology, because of the different sizes and shapes of chickens, they established a set of induction linkage system to make it be suitable for all chickens. Chicken meat is the main agricultural product in Georgia, and the annual production value is as high as two billions of dollors.
This newly released robot adopts double degree of freedom mechanical arm, and the chicken are controlled by a six-degree of freedom mechanical arm. The video system detects the chickens using force feedback algorithm firstly, and then the six-degree of freedom mechanical arm moves the chicken to the cutting mechanical arm. And this system can also be applied to process other poultry after a simple adjustment, but there are also some people worry that once this robot is produced in a large sale, many people will be at risk of losing their jobs.
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