Midleton Distillery wins safety award for use of AI-assisted robot

A custom-designed autonomous mobile robot equipped with an AI vision system handles the unloading of 60kg whiskey casks from large shipping containers

Health and Safety Authority interim CEO Mark Cullen and Midleton Distillery general manager Jaime Jordan with the robotic solution that has delivered a 100% reduction in manual handling incidents related to barrel unloading. 

An AI-assisted robot that unloads 60kg whiskey casks has won a European workplace safety award.

Irish Distillers’ Midleton Distillery has been awarded the Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Award from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).