{"id":138348,"date":"2022-04-19T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/robots-reach-for-food-processing"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:04:00","slug":"robots-reach-for-food-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/robots-reach-for-food-processing","title":{"rendered":"Robots reach for food processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-reach-for-food-processing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The processing of food at high volumes has traditionally posed many problems for robots and cobots, and has lagged behind other industries. Foods have a variety of shapes and sizes and can be delicate in nature. These variables can be challenging when a robot tries to grasp an item. The delicate often has strict requirements for quality, making them even harder to grasp (think: strawberries).<\/p>\n<p>Non-automotive robot orders now represent 58% of the North American total. Unit sales to the food and consumer goods sector alone increased 29% in 2021 over 2020, according to Association for Advancing Automation (A3).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore industries recognized that robotics could help reverse productivity declines and fill repetitive jobs human workers don\u2019t want. It is no longer a choice whether to deploy robots and automation,\u201d says Jeff Burnstein, president of A3. \u201cIt\u2019s now an absolute imperative. As we\u2019ve long believed\u2014and users continue to confirm\u2014robots help companies compete, ultimately creating more jobs to handle their growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The processing of food at high volumes has traditionally posed many problems for robots and cobots, and has lagged behind other industries. Foods have a variety of shapes and sizes and can be delicate in nature. These variables can be challenging when a robot tries to grasp an item. The delicate often has strict requirements [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}