In light of climate change, pressing food security issues and a looming environmental crisis, insect farming looks to be a hugely viable – and sustainable – solution, albeit one that requires substantial capital investment to get started.
Insects require very little land or energy to produce, and they can be produced quickly and all year round unlike other feedstock such as soybeans.
Insects require fewer resources, including land and water, to farm and are able to convert low-quality organic waste into protein-rich end products suitable for animal or human consumption.
Aquaculture is a promising beachhead market; however, other uses of insect-derived products are being explored, such as fertilizer and biofuels.
Food waste is a global issue, yet few viable solutions have emerged. Insect farming is a promising example of circular economy put in practice.
One of the biggest challenges is the need for human intervention. CoRosect uses robotics to support all phases of the insect’s life cycle.
CoRoSect brings a novel perspective to automated insect farming. We introduce a digitalized, integrated robotic solution to support all insect life cycle phases. The goal here is to create a collaborative environment where humans and robots harmoniously share and undertake various cognitively and physically demanding tasks, such as transferring and handling crates (de-stacking and stacking), monitoring environmental conditions larvae separation/detection, insect feeding, and more. This infrastructure will be implemented, tested and validated based on end-user needs and requirements in diverse insect production environments, namely Mealworm, Black Soldier Fly and Crickets.
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CoRoSect is developing a novel Cognitive Robotic System for Digitalized and Networked (Automated) Insect Farms. We bring leading-edge robotics, AI, and some of the best experts in our industry - to help embrace automation and wave goodbye to the monotonous and mundane tasks.
Dr. Rico Möckel
Maastricht University
Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1
6229EN Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31433883482
rico.mockel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Prof. Dr. Mladen Radišić
CEO Foodscale Hub
Narodnog fronta 73
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia
Tel.: (+381) 21 300 8023
mladen@foodscalehub.com
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101016953.