
The agrifood industry is one of the latest to undergo a digital revolution, as well as its subfield – insect farming. The CoRoSect project has used novel technologies to their full extent, swarming towards the future with robotics and exploring the full potential of insect farming. The project has successfully completed pre-pilot activities in Spain at Entomotech, a leading company focused on industrial application of arthropods.
“Our pre-pilot activities gave us a firsthand experience of insect farming, which motivated us to improve technology in the coming large scale pilots. We tested our first-gen sensors and robots for insect farming, gaining crucial experience for tailored solutions. Thanks to this, CoRoSect will provide a solution where robots, sensors, and software work together, and the pre-pilot allowed us to test the integration of components under real-world conditions.” Dr. Rico Möckel, Maastricht University
The pre-pilot activities were performed in collaboration with Entomo AgroIndustrial and they helped in understanding the scale of different parameters in the insect farming environment, provided data on the usability and performance of chosen sensing and software solutions, as well as wireless communication. The pre-pilot activities helped in understanding the scale of different parameters in the insect farming environment, and provided data on the usability and performance of chosen sensing and software solutions, and wireless communication. This was a significant leap towards the CoRoSect goal of automating insect farming and improving its efficiency and sustainability. The next step of the project are pilot activities that will be organized in Italy, United Kingdom, Norway, Bulgaria.
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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.