公开(公告)号：US20200154685A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16479648

申请日：2018-01-22

Applicant: SENECIO LTD.

Inventor： Hanan LEPEK ,  Tamir NAVE ,  Yoran FLEISCHMANN ,  Rom EISENBERG ,  Baruch E. KARLIN ,  Itamar TIROSH

IPC: A01K67/033 ,  A01M1/02 ,  A01M1/22 ,  A01K1/03 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G01N35/00 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Method and apparatus for mechanical sex-sorting of mosquitoes by extracting a class of mosquitoes from unsorted mosquitoes comprises obtaining unsorted mosquitoes, obtaining images of individual mosquitoes in a stationary phase, electronically classifying the individuals from the images into male mosquitoes and/or female mosquitoes, and possibly also unclassified objects; obtaining co-ordinates of individuals of at least one of the male mosquito and female mosquito classifications, and using a robot arm to reach an individual identified by the obtained coordinates to store or remove the individuals, thereby to provide sex-sorted mosquitoes.