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13/12/2023Inser Robótica develops a universal AI-based depalletizer.
Inser Robótica, a Basque engineering firm with 37 years of experience in automating processes for food and beverage producers, among others, develops a universal depalletizer based on AI. Their Innovation Department creates applications that enhance their capabilities in artificial vision and specific software, integrating into the company's packaging projects. In recent years, they have specialized in incorporating various AI models for product classification and defect detection in all types of objects.
Typically, their clients need equipment to unload homogeneous products from pallets. These products are always of the same reference, with consistent dimensions and weights, allowing the robot to know the location of each box before each movement.
In 2022, the goal was set to transform their traditional single-reference depalletizing systems into something universal. The AI Depalletizer is the name given to this development by Inser Robótica.
The demonstration cell they unveiled this week shows how the system can unload a pallet filled with chaotically placed boxes of various sizes, colors, and weights using a collaborative robot equipped with an onboard camera and a vacuum gripper. This is what they call a heterogeneous pallet.
Alberto Alonso, CEO of the company, has highlighted that the importance of this milestone is not the robotic arm or the physical tool that we can see at first glance, but the intelligence that has been given to this product thanks to the training it has received with thousands of references. The resulting software allows us to be free when configuring the most suitable final solution for each customer. We can choose the robot model that best suits each need, as well as the type and number of cameras, adjusting to the productive need of each case.
Until now, this type of application was only within the reach of a few companies located in technology hubs far from our territory, so a development like this highlights the innovation capacity developed in Spain, and more specifically in the Basque Country.
The most common ecosystem for this solution will be the distribution centers of large logistics operators where a 100% reliable and careful unloading is required, and where it is also necessary to guarantee the complete traceability of the process, completing the system with barcode or QR reading equipment and the integration of the project with the companies' management systems, which allows the immediate registration of the unloaded items.
It has also sparked interest from prominent e-commerce platforms for textile or electronic products that receive a large number of returned products daily, as pointed out by Jon Martínez, the company's Innovation Director.

You can find more information about this development in its specific section.
In our depalletizing applications section, you can find other examples developed for clients where the boxes, bags, or products in general, are single-reference.