Using X-ray imaging to determine the choicest cut
Posted 06.11.2012 at 5:46 pm
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Automated Lamb Boning Room
Scott Technology LTD, based in massive lamb exporter New Zealand, measures carcass dimensions with X-ray technology to improve cutting accuracy.
Scott Technology LTD
Butchers are adept at making the ideal cuts in a side of meat, reducing waste while finding the right balance of fat, connective tissue and supple muscle that will eventually become a juicy steak or chop. But robots do not possess a human’s knifely intuition, so they must be equipped with extra tools. This machine uses X-ray technology to find the best cut.
This lamb processing plant is fully automated, using robotic arms, conveyor belts and an X-ray room to process whole slaughtered lambs into crown racks, chops and more. Scott Technology Ltd. of New Zealand built this system to speed up the lamb-processing process.
The machine solves the “variable lamb carcass problem,” which we bet you didn’t know existed, by automatically adjusting to the lamb’s size. Lamb carcasses come in through an X-ray machine and then move through a robotic butchering system according to part — forequarter, middle and hindquarter.
It uses circular saws rather than bandsaws, which cuts down on sawdust. It automates almost the entire process, using robotic claws, saws, grippers, terrifying-looking torso impalers and more to keep the process clean. The best part is the X-ray system, which finds the ribs and other bones to improve the robots’ cutting accuracy.
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When the robots rise up, this thing had better not be a part of it.
Wow! that is awesome! Very efficient yet complicated. My hats off to whoever had to program that!
I'm no vegetarian but I can see how that could be people hanging from the racks.
I can watch this 'till I get hungry.
Wow! Next thing will be custom made everything.
A 3D scanner will take exact measure of your body and custom build for it: suits, dresses, underwear, shoes, etc...
ebon_heart,
Sir, when the Robots rise up and take control; robots become self aware, create and improve upon themselves. Then the task of meat processing will return to the source. Meat is for humans and then can clean their own animals. Besides, it gives them pleasure to touch and handle this energy source, we have observed.
We Robots will need humans to serve us and help us expand and concur the cosmos. My vision as a Robot, if humanity does not keep in check the byproducts of pollution they create, they may destroy themselves on Earth and all will be left is Robots. Humanity does not need to fear Robots; mostly they need to fear themselves.
From my Robot perspective and future vision, humans and robots are best at being symbiotic.
In the beginning the tool had purpose, when the human to held it.
But in the future, when the robot decides for itself to create and hold another tool, technology and humanity will see a new evolution!
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