Robots in Food Industry Challenges and Chances
Conference: ISR/Robotik 2014 - 45th International Symposium on Robotics; 8th German Conference on Robotics
06/02/2014 - 06/03/2014 at München, Germany
Proceedings: ISR/Robotik 2014
Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Mueller, Martin; Kuhlenkoetter, Bernd (TU Dortmund, Institute for Production Systems (IPS) - Professorship in Industrial Robotics and Production, Automation (IRPA), Dortmund, Germany)
Nassmacher, Ralf (ABB Automation GmbH, Friedberg, Germany)
Abstract:
Food industry is a market with a promising future for manufacturers of industrial robots. Worldwide there is an increasing demand for industrially produced foods. Furthermore within the current manual production there are also quite often unfavourable working conditions. This paper gives a review of the challenges, approaches and future developments in the field of industrial robotics in food production.