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Shinkei Poseidon Robot Humanely Kills Fish

Shinkei Systems built Poseidon, a refrigerator-sized robot that scans each fish with computer vision, locates the brain, and kills it instantly.

How Poseidon kills a fish in seconds

The machine is called Poseidon, and fishermen install it directly on their boats.

Shinkei is building the whole chain, not just the killing machine

The robot is only the entry point.

Quality, not animal welfare, is the actual pitch

Whether buyers will pay extra for humanely killed fish the way some now do for humanely raised beef remains an open question.

The supply-chain problem Shinkei wants to fix

The spoilage issue ties into a detail of the American seafood supply chain that surprises most people.

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