Robot arms slice up chickens real fast

Winner winner, chicken dinner! Guess this robot is capable of fixing far more chicken dinners than you can imagine, where the folks over at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have come up with a chicken-deboning robot which is touted to be able to slice meat from the bone faster and more efficiently compared to even the most skilled of humans. Of course, I would imagine that plenty of thought has gone into the design, since no two chickens are alike – and human experts are able to, at a glance, know just where to make that incision, when and the time to turn the blade, in addition to exerting the right amount of force. The Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System project has the tall task of emulating those aspects, “seeing” in 3D while sensing just when and how to cut up each individual chicken.

A robot arm will hold your future dinner in hand, while a computer vision system makes a quick scan and figures out its contours. Once the depths and locations of joints, bones, and the works are determined, it will head to work right away. While the knife makes simple cutting movements, the key to a well cut chicken lies in tis arm that will hold the chicken. This arm moves around freely, and both of them work together to debone your chicken with fingers crossed, unprecedented precision and speed.

Edwin Kee
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