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Industrial Robot: An International Journal Emerald Article: The use of robots in the Japanese food industry Yoshihiro Kusuda Article information: To cite this document: Yoshihiro Kusuda, (2010),“The use of robots in the Japanese food industry“, Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Vol. 37 Iss: 6 pp. 503 - 508 Permanent link to this document: /10.1108/01439911011081641 Downloaded on: 11-04-2012 To copy this document: This document has been downloaded 637 times. Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by DALIAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY For Authors: If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service. Information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Additional help for authors is available for Emerald subscribers. Please visit /authors for more information. 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Findings The paper fi nds that food palletizing and packaging are the popular applications at present. Food processing and handling are emerging. Agricultural and farming applications are yet to come in spite of intensive on-going R the fi rst robot picks up a pork thigh from a conveyor and loads it into the transfer system of HAMDAS-R. The other three robots make the slitting line along the bones withknives.Thosethighsaretransferredintothemeatseparation unit that pulls out bones from the meat. HAMDAS-R processes 500 thighs automatically per hour. Since no human hands touch the meat, the problem of sanitation and security of food is highly improved. 4. Robots in retail SincearestaurantinOkayamaintroducedaR2D2likerobotasa waiter in early 1990s, a number of waiter robots are installed in restaurants. Most recently, Hajime Restaurant in Bangkok employs four Motoman dual arm robots as serving waiters disguised as samurai warriors. Customers order their food on a touch-screen display and their robotic waiter will whiz into action. The robots will deliver the food to the customerstable and collect empty dishes (Figure 9). The robots also dance to entertain customers. A factory automation equipment manufacturer, Aisei, opens noodlesouprestaurantchain,Famein,inNagoyaandothercities inabidtoshowthedexterityofitsproductstothepublicatlarge. Two Fanuc industrial robots, a chef robot and an assistant, cook noodle soup according to customers specifi cation in front of them (Figure 10). At FOOMA exhibition a robot system integrator, Toyo Riki, demonstrated an okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) cooking robot. The robot takes verbal orders from customers and using standard kitchen utensils cooks the pancake just before the eyes. 5. Future prospects Food handling applications will grow at rapid pace. According to a market prediction made by NEDO (the New Energy and industry Development Organization) that provides R&D funds to new industries, the robotic business for food handling will Figure 7 Pneumatic actuator for handling soft object and Sushi handling robot (a) (b) Figure8 PorkmeatslittinganddeboningrobotdevelopedbyMayekawa Figure 9 Waiter robot serving meal to customers The use of robots in the Japanese food industry Yoshihiro Kusuda Industrial Robot: An International Journal Volume 37 Number 6 2010 503508 507 grow up from 4,200 million yen in 2010 to 17,900 in 2015, 67,500 in 2020, and 1,43,200 in 2025. The Japanese robot manufacturers that used to focus on automotive and electronic industry are now trying to fi nd new outlets. They are also enhancing support capability to SMEs. Food machine manufacturers are now developing handling technology of soft food stuffs taking advantage of the advanced robotics. All these efforts will contribute to make new robotic applications in food industry grow rapidly. For agriculture and farming, although a lot of research and development are being done, all depends on when and how Japan will be able to transform the structure of its agriculture to big scale industry from the current peasant-oriented farming. It will not take place immediately. The introduction of robots in the retail sector will continue to provide interesting news to the general public, but no signifi cant amount of business to the robot industry. Contacts BRAINhttp:/brain.naro.affrc.go.jp Fuji Heavy Industrieswww.fuji.co.jp Fanucwww.fanuc.co.jp Furukawa Kikouhttp:/furukawakikou.co.jp May