Pleasanton, CA-based Adept Technology has announced that its new robot for high-speed food handling, the Adept Quattro s650HS, which has been accepted by the USDA, will be on display at Pack Expo 2009. According to the company, Quattro s650HS is the only USDA Accepted parallel robot available for meat and poultry processing.

The Pack Expo show will be held in Las Vegas, October 5-7.

Rush LaSelle, director of global sales and marketing for Adept Technology, Inc., said, "The Adept Quattro s650HS has been designed to give food packagers the highest possible speeds for raw-food handling, without compromising cleanliness and hygienic standards."

The Quattro line is specifically designed for high-speed manufacturing, packaging, material handling, and assembly applications. The robot features a unique four-arm kinematic, which is designed to enable higher speeds and faster accelerations.