Processing plant
Inspection of 100% of production at shackle-line speed, with automated product diversion through integration with the line PLC.
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Physical AI · Robotics · Industrial automation
Physical AI for the food industry.
Our systems don't just see — they decide and act. They grade, sort and divert the product physically inside the line, at production speed.
9systems built from scratch
6industrial sectors served
28+countries with patents filed
>99%sexing accuracy
Solutions by sector
Where our technology runs
The same perception-and-action architecture, applied to different industrial lines. Each sector has its own process, its own bottleneck and its own page.
SECTOR
Hatchery
From hatch to boxing. AI sexing with three output lines, vaccination, counting and grading — decision and execution in the same machine.
- AI sexing
- Automated vaccination
- Counting and boxing
- Chick grading
ANALYSIS INSTRUMENTS
Smart Seed — grain and seed analysis
A benchtop instrument for laboratories and quality control. It measures all three dimensions of every seed, identifies fungi and defects and returns batch statistics.
Our own technology
We build technology that did not exist
Nine physical AI systems built from scratch, across six industrial sectors, with patents filed in more than 28 countries.
A single-product company cannot prove that it invents. Solving unrelated industrial problems with the same perception-and-action architecture is what separates the capacity to create from one lucky hit.
Patents in more than 28 countries
International filing is the most direct way to attest invention: not a marketing claim, but a technical examination carried out by a third party.
Individual static image capture
Every individual is analysed at rest, in a stable position. The image comes out sharp and comparable across batches — unlike capture in motion, where blur introduces error no model recovers from.
Perception and action in one system
Inspecting points; acting resolves. Our systems close the loop inside the line: they read, decide and move the product, with no operator in between. FusionBot is the cleanest example — a bespoke welding robot that inspects its own weld, in the same pass.
Hardware and software built in-house
AI model, electronics, mechanics and assembly are done by our team at our facility. An adaptation required by the customer process is solved at the source.
Recognition
Third place at InovaPork — Programa Inova
Embrapa Suínos e Aves · 2021Recognition for PigScale, an automated swine weighing system using computer vision and artificial intelligence, in the open innovation programme run by Embrapa Suínos e Aves.
Coverage: Canal Rural · AgEvolution nutriNews Brasil
Systems already built
- AI chick sexingHatchery
- Automated vaccinationHatchery
- Counting and boxingHatchery
- Chick gradingHatchery
- Carcass quality inspectionProcessing plant
- PigScale — 3D swine weighingSwine production
- Smart Seed — seed analysisGrain and seed
- Eagle 3.0 — packaging inspectionPaper and board
- FusionBot — welding robot with built-in inspectionMetalworking
Some systems were built for specific customers and others continue to evolve. The list exists to show engineering breadth, not to serve as a catalogue.
About Smartpixel
In-house engineering, from algorithm to equipment
We are an artificial intelligence and computer vision technology company with our own manufacturing plant in Herval d'Oeste and a research hub at the Inovale Innovation Centre in Joaçaba — Santa Catarina, Brazil. We develop the model, write the artificial intelligence, design the mechanics, assemble the equipment and follow the operation — which removes the gap between what AI promises and what the production line delivers.
The artificial intelligence and the software are developed in-house by our own team, and the equipment is designed and manufactured at our facility. Keeping hardware and software under one roof means an adaptation required by the customer process is solved at the source instead of worked around.
We work in open innovation with industry, universities and innovation centres, and our projects are born inside the customer's process, not in an isolated laboratory.
Media
The technology in operation, up close
Videos and official material to get to know HatchFlex, hear from those already running the system and understand how the technology adapts to the hatchery.
INSTITUTIONAL VIDEO
HatchFlex in action
See the proposition, the technology and the application of automated chick sexing in hatcheries.
TECHNICAL MATERIAL
Explore HatchFlex in detail
Visit the official sub-brand page for technical specifications and international product content.
Go to hatchflex.com ↗
In the press
Brazilian innovation reaching the world
Press coverage of Smartpixel technology running in the first Brazilian hatchery with fully automated AI chick sexing.
ChickSorter · Pluma AgroavícolaaviNews Brasil
Pluma Agroavícola tem primeiro incubatório do Brasil com processo de sexagem automatizado por IA
The specialist publication highlights the technology developed by Smartpixel, the full automation of the process and the gains in productivity, traceability and animal welfare.
Read the article ↗Food & Agribusiness
Brazilian AI system brings 99% accuracy to chick sexing
The international coverage presents HatchFlex, Smartpixel's presence in Brazil and Europe and the partnership with HIPRA for global expansion.
Read the article ↗Notícias Agrícolas
Pluma lança incubatório com sexagem de aves por IA
The article details the installation in Dois Vizinhos, the industrial capacity of the modules and the fact that the innovation was developed entirely in Brazil.
Read the article ↗RuralNews
Incubatório no Paraná recebe tecnologia inédita de IA
The report presents the Brazilian solution as a step forward for efficiency, standardisation and modernisation of the poultry chain.
Read the article ↗ Research ecosystem
Our R&D happens alongside those producing science in Brazil
Keeping engineering in-house does not mean researching alone. Part of what we put into production is born in projects run with research institutions from our region and from Brazilian agribusiness.
Embrapa Suínos e Aves
Open innovation partnership with the Concórdia (SC) unit, a national reference in poultry and swine production. Our computer vision swine weighing system was one of the solutions awarded in Embrapa's Inova programme.
Campus LuzernaIFC — Campus Luzerna
Technical cooperation with the Instituto Federal Catarinense campus specialised in Control and Automation Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, with metrology, machining, welding and drive laboratories a few kilometres from our plant.
Polo Inovale
Our R&D hub sits inside the Inovale Innovation Centre, in Joaçaba — where we prototype equipment and test computer vision models before taking them to the factory floor. It is also where we build projects with the Santa Catarina Innovation Centres Network, connecting the company to universities, funding agencies and other technology-based companies in the state.
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HIPRA — opens the website in a new tab Bring us your process. We hand back a working system.
Tell us the bottleneck — inspection, grading, counting, traceability or in-line action. We assess technical feasibility and come back with a concrete path.