Why robot butchers increasingly have the cutting edge

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2024

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IMAGE: A comic-style illustration of a robot butcher processing a chicken, showing the robot equipped with chef attire, skillfully butchering the chicken in a futuristic kitchen setting, emphasizing precision and efficiency in a whimsical manner

Algorithms are increasingly being used in industrial robotics, especially in sectors with high variability and where precision is essential.

Yet as recently as the end of last year some meat companies were still saying that their sector lagged in the incorporation of robotics, and was still overwhelmingly dependent on manual labor for most processes. However, within…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)