Humanoid Robotics and AI: The Future of Food Manufacturing

Episode notes

In this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork , host Katy Jones, CEO at Trustwell, sits down with Ozan Ozaskinli, Partner and Managing Director at Value Gene Consulting Group, to explore how humanoid robotics and AI are solving labor shortages, reducing operational variability, and fundamentally changing how food manufacturers approach safety, standardization, and compliance. Ozan explains that food safety breakdowns often occur during transformation initiatives because many teams treat compliance as a late-stage checkpoint rather than a primary design input. By embedding these considerations from the start, companies can prevent costly errors like mislabeling and regulatory non-compliance. Successful leaders shift from a reactive to a proactive stance by building strong cross-functional muscles, bringing quality, regulatory, and operations teams together early in the commercialization process to catch issues before they escalate. The conversation dives deep into the operational variability crisis, noting that food plants often see performance differences of up to 40% between shifts due to human factors and high turnover rates.

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