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In food production, computer vision empowers quality control by assessing visual attributes, ensuring product consistency and safety. Robotic systems integrated with computer vision technology, streamline processes like sorting and packaging, enhancing production efficiency. Sensors and machine learning algorithms enable non-destructive quality measurements, identifying defects, reducing waste and upholding stringent food safety standards in the industry.

  • Tea plants in a greenhouse of Local Tea in Zundert Netherlands with WUR Vision+Robotics' test setup for a mobile tea factory
    Revolution in tea: building a smart tea machine

    Visiting a tea plantation in Zundert, the Netherlands, where Vision+Robotics researchers are developing a smart, mobile tea machine.

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  • Impression of Food Processing hall at Anuga Foodtec 2024 with a food processing robot in the foreground
    Food industry must move towards flexible mobile robots and sensor fusion

    Impressions from Anuga FoodTec 2024: "Food industry must move to much shorter and much more flexible production lines with flexible mobile robots."

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  • Simulation with 3D fish: a building block for fishing industry automation

    In a few years, fishing vessels will be equipped with cameras and robots that were developed using synthetic data and machine learning. Researcher Arjan Vroegop talks about game engines, Masenro 3, and how to count fish even if you can't see them all.

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  • Vision Robotics Robot to package salad meals
    Robot to package food and (salad) meals

    Can you picture it? A flexible robot that assembles a packet of soup ingredients or a bag of bami vegetables by itself.

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  • Vision Robotics Agri-tech leading the way within NXTGEN Hightech
    Agri-tech leading the way within NXTGEN Hightech

    NXTGEN Hightech was officially launched last spring. With the support of the National Growth Fund, over 330 Dutch knowledge institutions, start-ups, scale-ups and (SME) companies will collaborate on new high-tech machines and

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  • Sensor technology is like having superpower vision - VisionRobotics
    Sensor technology is like having superpower vision

    Once every two months, we introduce one of our experts. We give an insight into the person, their field of research and their expectations.

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