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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 could 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 keep up a excessive stage 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 employees 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 mix of laptop imaginative and prescient and drive management to determine and form breaded cod fillets.
“We have been advised that the shaping stage was tough for the shopper to employees, so we used our adaptive know-how to not solely resolve the issue, however [also] enhance the way it’s accomplished,” acknowledged Liang Mao, Flexiv’s new market resolution director. “Our fillet-shaping resolution ensures consistency, accelerates manufacturing, and maintains the best requirements of high quality, all whereas finishing a handbook labor sort process that nobody needs to do.”
Tooling and AI convey superhuman senses, velocity 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 situation 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 drive management to use the exact quantity of stress wanted to type the fillets with out inflicting harm.
The robots can function at speeds and consistency which are inconceivable for human employees, boosting productiveness with out compromising high quality, asserted Flexiv. The absolutely 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 geared up 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 wonderful finish drive sensing, exact finish drive management accuracy, multi-dimensional hybrid movement/drive management, disturbance rejection, and whole-body multi-point drive management.
Flexiv added that its system is designed to be straightforward to make use of and fast to deploy. Customers can combine the fish fillet-shaping system into an present 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 automobile seats and ultrasound scanning for healthcare prognosis. Flexiv additionally not too long ago 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 drive management, laptop imaginative and prescient, and AI, the corporate stated its turnkey automation can enhance effectivity whereas lowering operational prices and environmental impression.
