Thortek designed and constructed a robot for a bakery in Tennessee to replace a 6-person assembly line. This robot mixes cake batter in a four leaf clover, marbled fashion. This robot works on a three axis system consisting of an x, y, and conveyer.
This robot can mix up to 132 cakes per minute (22-trays with 6-cakes per tray) and is an enormous benefit to the bakery's quality department. Due to the repeatability of the robot, quality control issues virtually disappeared which included issues such as splashing cake batter on the side of the pan, ensuring every 1 inch square of cake must have some chocolate and some yellow batter without resulting in gray batter.
