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Poultry Processing Robotics Advances With ChicGrasp
USDA-NIFA grant supports innovation in AI-powered robotics
31 July 2026
By: University of Arkansas
North America
What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle chickens.
Using an advanced imitation learning algorithm and camera perceptions, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed ChicGrasp, a dual-jaw ro
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