This web site provides public information about the LobsterPlant project. The project was initiated by the coordinator, Norsk Hummer AS and funded by EU’s FP7 – Research for SMEs.
Official start date of the project was on September 15th, 2008. The duration of the project is 24 months.
Project Description
Lobsters are cannibalistic in nature and should therefore be kept separate from each other in captivity. This fact makes it difficult to manually run large scale farming of lobster on land. The LobsterPlant project is focused on developing automated technology for individual monitoring and feeding of lobster in land based systems. This development will make it practically and economically feasible to run large scale farming of European and American lobster.
Project Results
Summary of achieved project results
The LobsterPlant project is now nearing the end of its project period. The SMEs and RTDs have been working intensively and been rewarded with several promising results.
Prototype completed and ready for testing
The integration of the robot, feeding system and imaging system is now complete and is awaiting testing at Tjelbergodden, Norsk Hummer AS’ site for lobster juvenile production.