Projects Peeling Brussels Sprouts With Robots!

THE HEADLINE SAYS IT ALL REALLY. WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN BUILDING A 6 ROBOT BRUSSELS SPROUT PEELING SYSTEM – SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO.
In the UK we eat copious amounts of this little green vegetable, but usually only at Christmas. When you buy a packet of ready-to-go brussels sprouts from Waitrose this season, you will be able to open the bag and tip them into your cooking pot. This is because robots have already done the work of tidying up the product by trimming the stem so that the outer layer of leaves is removed.

It is of course the machine vision system that is the enabling technology here. Robots can pick and water blades can cut but without a clever means of locating the stem on the sprout and identifying the correct cut point, none of this will work.
If you have an interesting problem that you think we could solve with our advanced robot vision, please call us on +441590 679 333, for a confidential discussion, or email us.
Here’s a video. Note that there are 2 lines of 3 robots that are picking the sprouts. The system produces 21,000 peeled sprouts per hour.
So you don’t have to do this at Christmas. You’re welcome.
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