Industrial Design Firm Sketches Impact of Robots in the Food Industry

Detroit-based Sundberg-Ferar is an industrial design, research, engineering, innovation strategy and prototyping firm. They undertook the following thought exercise: How could robots—sorry, "cobots"—make a positive impact on the food industry? Ideating Cobot Uses in the Food Industry So far, the emerging role of cobots (collaborative robots) in the food industry is only as broad as jobs which are dirty, dull, or dangerous. In this ideation activity Sundberg-Ferar explored ways to maximize...