Serious injuries from working in poultry processing plants have decreased in the past 10 years, but workers are still at a high risk for musculoskeletal disorders from repetitive motions. A U.S.

Data released on January 10 from a USDA report, Poultry Processing Line Speed Evaluation Study (PULSE), found that 81% of workers were at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders across all ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today proposed updates to the rate by which poultry can speed down automated lines in processing plants, a long sought-after goal by the industry. In an announcement ...

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 ...

Researchers have assessed the impact of processing on the presence and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on chicken meat. Findings showed that while Campylobacter and E. coli were present ...

Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...

Workers on evisceration lines at poultry and swine plants are at increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders, studies released by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service conclude. But neither ...

ChickGrasp uses imitation learning, trained by a human, to do the task of grasping, lifting and hanging a chicken carcass on a shackle conveyor for further processing.

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect ...

Amirreza Davar, left, is a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He designed ...