"We're proud to be playing our part to pioneer this new technology in the whisky industry and look forward to progressing from these trials to developing a live system that can be used at our sites in the future. The team loved having the robot dog around so much we gave him his own Bacardi name - 'Royal Bark-la' in homage to our Royal Brackla Single Malt."
"Our aim here is to validate our own sensing kit and see whether robots can take on this type of inspection work,"
"The early results are promising, and it shows how manufacturing technologies being developed in Scotlan"
Bacardi is testing robotic dogs to detect small ethanol leaks in barrel-aging warehouses at the John Dewar & Sons maturation site near Glasgow. The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland mounted a sensing kit on a Boston Dynamics Spot robot, using a 3D-printed arm to measure ethanol vapor along defined patrol routes. The Scotch Whisky Research Institute supports the initiative. Ethanol evaporation, known as the angel's share, reduces whisky volume and can damage barrels or create safety hazards. Traditional inspections are manual, time-consuming, and inconsistent. Early trials aim to validate the sensing kit and assess robotic inspection feasibility for live deployment.
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