Laboratory Robotics- The future of Food Processing industries discusses the use of robots in laboratory and food processing settings. Robots are increasingly being used for tasks like colony picking, liquid handling, sampling, and surface swabbing due to their accuracy and ability to work continuously. New applications include using mobile robots with benchtop robots to link processes together for more reliable results. Overall, the adoption of laboratory and food processing robots is expected to improve quality, efficiency, and management while addressing issues like rising labor costs and shortages.

1. Laboratory Robotics- The future of Food
Processing industries
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2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• History
• Basic components of Robot
• Industrial robots
• Robots used in food industry and its
applications
• Requirements of a food robot system
• Robots in Dairy Industry
• Different types of laboratory robots
• Conclusion

3. https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/robotics/

4. What is Robot
 Industrial robotics are mechanical devices that are programmable. They are used in replacement of
humans as they can perform repetitive or dangerous tasks with extreme accuracy.
 Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering.[1] Robotics involves the
design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help
and assist humans
 Robotics develops machines that can substitute for humans and replicate human actions. Robots can be
used in many situations for many purposes, but today many are used in dangerous environments
(including inspection of radioactive materials, bomb detection and deactivation), manufacturing
processes, or where humans cannot survive
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5. Introduction
• The longer people are asked to do them, the more stressed they
become and the more breaks they need to take. Having hands,
mouths and noses close to food means a risk of contamination –
the hygiene offered by a machine minimises the transfer of germs
and pathogens. Robots are used on the production side in lots of
different industries, but in the food industry are usually deployed
only for packing and palletising. However, thanks to the huge leaps
forward that have been made in gripper technology, hygienic design
and intelligent image processing, there is now huge potential for
the use of robots in the processing and production of food.(Czech
artist Josef Čapek2015

6. An automatically controlled, re-programmable, multipurpose, manipulative
machine with several degrees of freedom, which may be either fixed in place or
mobile for use in industrial automation applications (ISO)
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Rob
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves the design,
construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist
humans. Industrial robotics are mechanical devices that are programmable. They are used in replacement of
humans as they can perform repetitive or dangerous tasks with extreme accuracy.
Iqbal et al.(2017)

7. History
FIRST PATENTED
UNIMATE IN 1956
1961 Used first
time for spot
welding and casting
1986 Honda started
E0 Robot
1988 SCAMP
designed first
emotional robot
In 1995 First time
used in packing and
palletization line
In 1999 deboning of
meat by GBRI
In 1992 for picking
up of citrus fruits in
spain
In 2004 REED
developed for
harvesting of
mushrooms
In 2006 worlds
firstrobotic rotary
dairy developed by
devlal
In 2015 COBOT
first dual armed
robot by ABB
Nayik et al.(2015)

8. BASIC COMPONENTS OF A ROBOT
Processor
The brain of the robot. It
calculates the motions and
the velocity of the robot’s
joints, etc
Sensors
To collect information about
the internal state of the
robot or to communicate
with the outside
environment
Software
Operating system, robotic
software and the collection
of routines.
Rover/Manipulstor
Main body of robot (Links,
Joints, other structural
element of the robot)
Actuators
Muscles of the manipulators
(servomotor, stepper motor,
pneumatic and hydraulic
cylinder)
End Effectors
The part that is connected to
the last joint hand of a
manipulator
Controller
Similar to cerebellum. it
controls and coordinates the
motion of the actuators
Massy et al. (2010)

9. FUTURE ROBOT TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
Atkinson et al.(2019)

10. EXAMPLES OF SOME ROBOT TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
Atkinson et al.(2019)

11. ROBOTS IN FOOD INDUSTRY-APPLICATIONS
Current and New Applications
1. Handling raw or unpackaged food
products :Primary Packaging
2. Ready-meal construction
3. Cake and pie handling
4. Meat processing
1. Cake decoration
2. Pizza assembly
3. Grading of fruit and vegetables
4. Cooking
5. Warehouse
Traditional Applications - Mostly Packaging Areas
 Palletizing
 Secondary Packaging : Case packing / carton loading
 Primary Packaging : Dependent upon the products
Duong et al.(2020)

12. REQUIREMENTS OF FOOD ROBOT SYSTEM
Any Robotic Automation System Specifications : Reach / Payload / Speed
Protection from Water and Humidity
Sealed Design with Smooth Finish for Drainage
Locate controls away from water to prevent damage
Protected from water with sealed covers
Locate controls away from water to prevent damage
Purged to prevent water entry and damage
Jamshed et al.(2017)

13. TYPES OF ROBOTS IN FOOD INDUSTRY
SCARA
They work in a similar
way to human arms
and are often called
‘horizontal articulated
arm robots’
DELTA
Spider-like delta robots
a special form of
parallel robot typically
have three to four
articulated axes with
stationary actuators
PORTABLE
Mounted robotic
systems that span a
cubic handling area by
means of three linear
axes
ARTICULATED
robots with multiple
interacting jointed arms
that can be fitted with
grippers or tools
Articulated robots offer
a high degree of
flexibility
Bader et al.(2020)

14. ROBOTICS IN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS)
• The world's first robotic rotary dairy was developed by Delaval
• The first commercial installation has been operating at Gala, the Dornauf farm in
northern Tasmania since early 2012
Prasad et al.(2017)

15. ROBOTICS – LABORATORY ACTIVITIES
Cleaning
robots
Colony
picking
robots
Autoclaving
robots
Sampling
robots
Surface
swabbing
robots
Pipeetting
robots
cobots
ROBOTS
Mobile robots Bench top Robots

16. COLONY PICKING ROBOTS
Pickolo
800 colonies per hour
Screening and isolation of
monoclonal mammalian
cell lines such as
Hybridomas, CHO cell
lines microbial clones
Automatic or interactive
colony selection
Fast and efficient – up to
600 colonies per hour
Direct smearing --
colony is smeared
directly on MALDI
target using
disposable tip

17. YuMi® - IRB 14000
Spiral plating
Spread plating
pipetting
Liquid handling

18. WASP®DT- A FULLY AUTOMATED MICRO LAB
1 Sample Entry Conveyor
2 Robot 1 “Tarzan”
3 Robot 2 “Jane”
4 Spinner and Vortex
5 Media Carousel
6 Warehouse Carousel (optional)
7 Printer
8 Rejection Bin
9 Sample Exit Conveyors
10 Gram SlidePrepTM (optional)

19. A Colony Picking Robot with Multi-Pin Synchronous Manipulator
The colony picking robot with multi-pin
synchronous manipulator as a novel and
simple design, because it can not only
achieve picking, inoculation, cleaning and
heating at the same time, but also can
greatly improve picking efficiency. The
sterilization method adopted in the system
can sterilize the picking tool 2 times in 2 s
The result of static analysis indicates that the entire picking structure
satisfies the design requirements of the positioning accuracy of 0.1mm Huang et al.(2018)

20. Petri-Dish Carousel Add-On Robots
An integrated storage
solution for up to 180
petri-dish
Includes 12 stackers
containing up to 15
petri-dish each
A sensor that
automatically counts
the number of dish in
each tower and
enables the robotic
This automatic plate
sensing enables easy
operation and long
walk-away time for
petri-dish driven
tasks
The robotic arm takes
the petri plate directly
from the carousel
using special finger
adapters to hold a
petri dish on the robot
This allows the
carousel to work with
no transfer station or
shuttles and greatly
speeds up operation

21. Kuka robot- GC Analysis

22. CSDA10F dual-arm robot –GC/LC-MS
This process included preparation of standard and sample solutions, derivatization and
final dilution. Following the sample assay process, designed by the user with SAMI
software, the robot carried out sample preparation with the same laboratory equipment
used in the manual procedure. The samples prepared on 96-well multiple-well plates
were fed to the autosampler for injection into the mass spectrometer.
Xianghua C et al.(2016)

23. SENSORY ROBOTICS E-NOSE
BASELINE RESISTANCE-The E-Nose Smells Something
Each polymer changes its size, -and therefore its resistance, by a different amount,
making a pattern of the change. If a different compound had caused the air to
change, the pattern of the polymer films' change would have been different
.
consists of different polymer films,
which are specially designed to
conduct electricity. When a
substance is absorbed into these
films, the films expand slightly, and
that changes how much electricity
they conduct. Each electrode reacts
to particular substances by changing
its electrical resistance in a
characteristic way
Biological nose E nose
Inhaling Pump
Mucus Filte
Olfactory epthelium Sensors
Binding with proteins Interaction
Enzymatic proteins Reaction
Cell membrane depolarized signal
Nerve impulses Neural network
Gonzalez et al.(2020)

24. SENSORY ROBOTICS E-TONGUE
.
identify E nose
function Identify chemical
composition of liquids
Application Wine industry
principle 100s of microchip
Sensors.
Colour
change
Depends upon
chemicals
cost 20 USD
PROS Effective qualitative
results
An electronic tongue is a device made of sensors responding to some taste
(soluble) of foods through the transduction of a signal or a pattern of signals
thanks to a pattern-recognition software system.
Quantify bitterness or “spicy level” of drinks or dissolved
compounds, Quantify taste masking efficiency of formulations
Shibhata A et al.(2018)

25. Munch-o-matic- An artificial Mouth
Reproduce the result of
mastication
Chewing, the release of saliva
The rate of food breakdown
And the temperature all affect
the flavor and smell of food
before it’s swallowed.
Shibhata A et al.(2018)

26. Robotic arm can sense chemicals through its fingers
The bacterial cells
reside in wells with
a flexible, porous
membrane that
allows chemicals to
enter but keeps the
cells inside
When IPTG crosses
the membrane into
the chamber, the
cells fluoresce and
electronic circuits
inside the module
detect the light
The electrical signal
travels to the
gripper's control
unit, which can
decide whether to
pick something up
or release it
As a test, the
gripper was able to
check a laboratory
water bath for IPTG
then decide whether
or not to place an
object in the bath
 a robotic gripping arm that uses engineered
bacteria to "taste" for specific chemicals
 The new device uses a biosensing module based
on E coli bacteria engineered to respond to the
chemical IPTG by producing a fluorescent
protein

27. PIPETTING AND LIQUID HANDLING ROBOTS
KIWI 124 ABB IY COPN ABB 126
MOTOMAN FLOW BOAT

28. A mobile robotic chemist-University of Liverpool
This 400 kg robot has infinite patience,
can think in 10 dimensions, and works
for 21.5 hours each day, pausing only to
recharge its battery. conducts 688
experiments over 8 days, working for 172
out of 192 hours. To do this, it makes 319
moves, completes 6,500 manipulations,
and travels a total distance of 2.17 km.
weighing out solids,
dispensing liquids,
removing air from the
vessel, running the
catalytic reaction, and
quantifying the
reaction products.
Burger et al.(2020)

29. BOUMATIC ROBOTS-FOR SAMPLING
Helps to takes the milk directly from the silos with in a fixed frequency and
passes the samples to laboartory on wheels.the volume and time of samples
taken are being noted automatically once command is given

30. Comparison of surface sampling methods for an extended duration outdoor
biological contamination study
Sponge sticks and 37-mm vacuums had similar recoveries over time for sampling spores on
both concrete and asphalt. There was no statistically significant difference in recoveries of
sponge sticks and 37-mm vacuums from either asphalt or concrete surfaces.
Melkins et al.(2020)

31. Evaluation of Surface Sampling for Bacillus Spores
Using Commercially-available Robots
Lee et al.(2013)

32. CLEANING ROBOTS

33. Robotic and telerobotic systems
significantly reduce the risk of
infectious disease transmission to
frontline healthcare workers by
making it possible to triage, evaluate,
monitor, and treat patients from a safe
distance
Robotics, Smart Wearable Technologies, and Autonomous Intelligent Systems
for Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Immediate investment in this
technology is a good first step in
making healthcare delivery safer and
more efficient for patients and
healthcare workers
Tavakoli et al.(2018)

34. TOP 10 COMPANIES IN MARKET
FANUC
KUKA
RETHINK ROBOTICS
KAWASAKI
ABB
STAUBLI

35.  RAS is being developed rapidly and thought to be a promising
technology.
 The adoption of RAS in the food supply chain improves the management
as well as increase the quality and efficiency.
 With the rising labor cost and labor shortage due to uncertain political
RAS might be one of the approaches to make food affordable.
 If we are going to link these bench type robots with mobile robots will
helps a lot to quality for better reliable and accurate results
CONCLUSION

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