As part of this project, IR explored the use of a Haptic Controller to control a robot system. The Haptic Controller could be used for tasks requiring grasping of a knife or tool. IR looked at Beef Hindquarter deboning, meat inspection, fat trimming, and scribe line marking as potential processing use case tasks to demonstrate and trial the shadow robotic concept.
It was determined that tele-remote operated robots are a viable technology for the red meat processing industry in Australia.