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A brand new fish fillet shaping utility makes use of a Rizon 4 adaptive robotic to create uniform parts and shapes. | Supply: Flexiv
The results of more and more adaptive robots might quickly be no farther than your subsequent meal. Flexiv yesterday stated its Rizon 4 robotic is a part of a brand new food-processing utility.
Historically, the duty of shaping fish fillets has been carried out by handbook labor. Workers want to take care of a excessive degree of focus to form every fillet in order that the top product is constant in dimension, defined Flexiv. The exhausting nature of the work led to excessive workers turnover and operational challenges.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm stated it developed its newest system for a number one Asian seafood producer. The system makes use of a mixture of laptop imaginative and prescient and power management to establish and form breaded cod fillets.
“We had been advised that the shaping stage was troublesome for the consumer to workers, so we used our adaptive know-how to not solely resolve the issue, however [also] enhance the way it’s accomplished,” said Liang Mao, Flexiv’s new market answer director. “Our fillet-shaping answer ensures consistency, accelerates manufacturing, and maintains the very best requirements of high quality, all whereas finishing a handbook labor sort job that nobody desires to do.”
Tooling and AI carry superhuman senses, pace to fillets
Flexiv claimed that its customized end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) and laptop imaginative and prescient “allow precision and effectivity far past human capabilities.” The system makes use of AI-powered laptop imaginative and prescient to precisely detect the placement of every fillet on the manufacturing line.
Then, working in sync with the conveyor line, Flexiv’s Rizon 4 robots form the parts with out lifting them. They use power management to use the exact quantity of strain wanted to type the fillets with out inflicting harm.
The robots can function at speeds and consistency which can be inconceivable for human staff, boosting productiveness with out compromising high quality, asserted Flexiv. The totally automated system additionally features a self-cleaning function to make sure hygiene and operational effectiveness, it added.
Flexiv designs cobot for ease of deployment
The corporate outfitted its Rizon 4 collaborative robotic with seven levels of freedom and an 8.8 lb. (4 kg) payload capability. It options industrial-grade capabilities, together with high quality finish power sensing, exact finish power management accuracy, multi-dimensional hybrid movement/power management, disturbance rejection, and whole-body multi-point power management.
Flexiv added that its system is designed to be simple to make use of and fast to deploy. Customers can combine the fish fillet-shaping system into an current manufacturing line in half a working day. It requires no specialised coaching or prior expertise in robotics, it stated.
Different functions of Rizon 4 embrace manufacturing of automotive seats and ultrasound scanning for healthcare analysis. Flexiv additionally lately introduced Moonlight, an adaptive parallel robotic (see video under).
Based in 2016, Flexiv has established workplaces in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, and Singapore. With experience in integrating power management, laptop imaginative and prescient, and AI, the corporate stated its turnkey automation can enhance effectivity whereas decreasing operational prices and environmental affect.
