ReviewFrontiers in robotics and AI2021
Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Food Handling: A Review.
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- Harvesting environmental circadian oscillations for energy autonomy of soft robots.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Integrating Worker and Food Safety in Poultry Processing Through Human-Robot Collaboration: A Comprehensive Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Quality-aware robotic frying of fragile sheet intermediates using a dual-slot gripper.Current research in food science · 2026Article
- Integrating a Soft Pneumatic Gripper in a Robotic System for High-Speed Stable Handling of Raw Oysters.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Redesigning Food Handler Training: A Gamified Approach Tested in Italy's Large-Scale Retail.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An Open-Source 3D Printed Three-Fingered Robotic Gripper for Adaptable and Effective Grasping.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Automation and Optimization of Food Process Using CNN and Six-Axis Robotic Arm.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Design and Nonlinear Modeling of a Modular Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm.IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division · 2024Article
- Applications of a vacuum-actuated multi-material hybrid soft gripper: lessons learnt from RoboSoft manipulation challenge.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- Evaluation of different robotic grippers for simultaneous multi-object grasping.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- An Evaluation System of Robotic End-Effectors for Food Handling.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Research Progress on Low Damage Grasping of Fruit, Vegetable and Meat Raw Materials.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Emerging trends in the agri-food sector: Digitalisation and shift to plant-based diets.Current research in food science · 2022Review
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Abstract
Despite developments in robotics and automation technologies, several challenges need to be addressed to fulfill the high demand for automating various manufacturing processes in the food industry. In our opinion, these challenges can be classified as: the development of robotic end-effectors to cope with large variations of food products with high practicality and low cost, recognition of food products and materials in 3D scenario, better understanding of fundamental information of food products including food categorization and physical properties from the viewpoint of robotic handling. In this review, we first introduce the challenges in robotic food handling and then highlight the advances in robotic end-effectors, food recognition, and fundamental information of food products related to robotic food handling. Finally, future research directions and opportunities are discussed based on an analysis of the challenges and state-of-the-art developments.
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