Is This What That Show on Cartoon Network was Getting At?

In the first decade of the fifth century B.C., two chickens in Greece were fighting on the side of the road.  Fast forward just a few years, to the middle of the 20th century, and impossibly distant cousins of those two fiesty chickens were being mass produced to accommodate the American diet, which in 1970, included an annual intake of 40 pounds of chicken per person.  That number has since doubled, as we now individually consume over 80 pounds of chicken annually.

Logically, the next step is to invent robots to do the butchering for us.  Gary McMurray has been leading a team of robot builders at the Georgia Institute of Technology for eight years.  The machine they've created is equipped with robotic arms that are "guided by a three-dimensional imaging system that can determine in a split second the size of each chicken and where its skin, meat and bone are."