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Cognitive Robotic System for Digitalized and Networked (Automated) Insect Farms

Description du projet

Robotique et automatisation pour l’élevage d’insectes

L’insécurité alimentaire représente l’un des plus grands défis du XXIe siècle. Les insectes comestibles apparaissent comme une solution potentiellement durable pour l’alimentation humaine et animale. Le développement de la recherche, de l’innovation, des protocoles d’élevage et de la normalisation, tout comme la robotisation et l’automatisation des élevages d’insectes, sont indispensables pour améliorer la production et l’élevage de masse et en réduire les coûts. Le projet CoRoSect, financé par l’UE, se concentre sur la connexion de la recherche sur la bionomique et le cycle de vie des insectes avec de nouveaux outils et protocoles robotiques pour l’automatisation de l’élevage des insectes. Le projet établira des écosystèmes novateurs de robotique cognitive intégrée qui remplaceront les opérations requérant un travail manuel ou une supervision humaine continue pendant le cycle de vie des insectes.

Objectif

By 2030 over 9 billion people, along with animals raised for food or kept as companions, will need to be fed generating inconsistencies between the demand and supply of food resources and promoting food insecurity by rendering food as unavailable, unaffordable, unevenly distributed or unsafe to eat. Therefore, food security represents the big challenge of the 21st century and in that context one promising potential sustainable solution is insect farming. Edible insects are set to be approved in EU by late 2020 as novel food and insects also being a value food sources for farming animals; however research, innovation, farming protocols development and standardization, and a technology leap by robotizing and automatizing the mass rearing in insect farms is needed in order to concurrently scale the production and dramatically decrease the production costs. CoRoSect addresses the dramatic need of coupling research on bionomics and life cycle of insects intended to be used as food and feed, with new robotic tools and protocols for mechanization and automation of insect farming, which is a critical point stressed by the Technical Expert Consultation on Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in Assuring Food Security. CoRoSect forms a novel integrated cognitive robotic ecosystems where the repetitive but also cognitively and physically demanding tasks requiring increased manual effort or continuous human supervision during the insects’ lifecycle, are replaced by automatic robotic-based procedures which will also draw upon research performed on understanding biological, technical and economic requirements of insect rearing and optimizing all involved processes. Focusing on real insect rearing problems, CoRoSect technologies will evaluated through large-scale pilots in 5 insect farms placed in 5 European countries rearing three of the most commonly occurring species, thereby contributing essentially to a secure and sustainable food supply in Europe.

Appel à propositions

H2020-ICT-2018-20

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H2020-ICT-2020-2

Régime de financement

IA - Innovation action

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 860 250,00
Adresse
MINDERBROEDERSBERG 4
6200 MD Maastricht
Pays-Bas

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Région
Zuid-Nederland Limburg (NL) Zuid-Limburg
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 860 250,00

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