SMART 2 ( Sandwich Making Autonomous Robotic Technology 2 )

SMART 2（三明治自动制作机器人技术）是将价值5000亿美元的工业即食食品企业从低工资、低生产率的手工行业转变为高科技、高工资、高生产率行业的一个里程碑项目。即食食品和冷冻食品行业面临生存危机，因为他们再也负担不起或无法维持数十万低成本的体力劳动者，这些体力劳动者目前存款用于在英国，欧盟和北美生产产品（三明治，汉堡，比萨饼和沙拉）的新鲜原料。该行业一直无法复制手工组装的成分，因为目前的机器人技术（硬件和软件）不能识别、拾取和放置多孔、可变形工业机器人解决方案在过去的24个月里开发了一种高度创新的机器人硬件和软件解决方案，并获得专利，以解决这个问题，称为SMART（三明治制作自主机器人技术）从其位于埃塞克斯大学创新园的食品实验室。它开发了一种抓手，可以始终如一地，精确地，微妙地挑选和放置任何新鲜的成分（蛋白质，蔬菜，水果和沙拉），并使用高度创新的视觉系统可以从配料箱中挑选任何配料，并将其精确地放置在容器中，无论是面包片，小圆面包，它现在已经建立并反复测试了一条12个机器人的生产线，可以完全自动地组装三明治，速度和精度与人工操作员相同，但成本只有人工操作员的一小部分，由于不受低成本手工劳动力的限制，制造商将能够在生产率和利润率方面实现显著提高。SMART 2是与Around Noon合作的项目，他们是英国领先的三明治制造商之一，他们与IRS合作，在自己购买IRS机器人生产线之前，先在他们的工厂测试IRS机器人生产线，然后在全球范围内展示解决方案，产生销售额。

SMART 2 (Sandwich Making Autonomous Robotic Technology) is a milestone project in the transformation of the $500bn industrial ready food business from a low wage, low productivity manual industry to a high tech, high wage, high productivity industry. The ready meal and frozen food industries faces an existential crisis because they can no longer afford or maintain the hundreds of thousands of low cost manual workers that currently deposit the fresh ingredients that go into their products (sandwiches, burgers, pizzas and salads) in the UK, EU and North America. The industry has been unable to replicate the manual assembly of ingredients because current robotic technology (hardware and software) is unable to recognize, pick and place objects that are porous, deformable, and irregular in size and shape.Industrial Robotic Solutions has over the last 24 months developed and patented a highly innovative robotic hardware and software solution to this problem called SMART (Sandwich Making Autonomous Robotic Technology) from its food lab at the Innovation Park at the University of Essex. It has developed a gripper that can consistently, hygienically, and delicately pick and place any fresh ingredient (protein, vegetable, fruit, and salad) and using a highly innovative vision system can pick any ingredient from an ingredient bin and place it precisely onto a receptacle, whether a slice of bread, a bun, a wrap or a pizza base.It has now built and repeatedly tested a 12 robot production line that can fully and automatically assemble sandwiches at the same speed and accuracy as manual operators but at a fraction of the costs with the expectation that manufacturers will be able to achieve significant improvements in productivity and profitability as a result of being untethered to the availability of low cost manual labourSMART 2 is a collaboration with Around Noon, who are one of the leading manufacturers of sandwiches in the UK who are partnering with IRS in order to test the IRS robot line in their factory in advance of acquiring it themselves and then demonstrating the solution globally to generate sales.