Harvest Public Media: Can Robots Be Meatpackers? Sorry, This Job Is Still Humans Only

Can Robots Be Meatpackers? Sorry, This Job Is Still Humans Only

by Luke Runyon, Harvest Public Media

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August 24, 2015 – 6:45am

While other manufacturing industries have turned to robots and automated machinery, meatpacking hasn’t. The lack of robots in meat processing gives insight into the limits of the technology, and the economics of putting meat on American tables.