How to Strip a Chicken Down to Its Ragged Bones in 2.5 Seconds

Martin Yan can debone a chicken in 18 seconds . That ’s pretty right , for a human being . The next generation of Mayekawa automatic deboners , however , will shuck a skirt like an ear of clavus in just under 2.5 seconds .

This Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner hoot chickens at a rate of 1,500 hoot an hr — that ’s ten times as tight as even the most skilled butcher — and retails for around $ 560,000 . The system use a specially - built image processing arrangement that modifies the course of the blades to maximize yield . As Atsushi Suzuki , Assistant Marketing Manager of the food processing division , explains , “ It recognizes simulacrum take by the camera and change the depth and location for the cuts for each crybaby . ” Then , it grabs the Gallus gallus by the wings and just pull the pith from the rib batting cage . The system then makes another shallow incision to withdraw any remaining blank meat from the breastbone before discarding the bones and giblets .

Here ’s the Mayekawa powering through crybaby carcasses :