Group filled, foil-sealed yogurt cups into trays/multipacks (secondary packaging)

After dosing and lid sealing, filled yogurt cups are collated into multi-cup blocks, variety trays or cartons before shrink-wrapping and palletizing. The objects are now filled and heavier but still deformable: side-wall pressure can dent the cup or pop/puncture the thin foil lid, causing leaks and product loss, and mixed-flavor variety packs require placing several distinct SKUs into a defined pattern. The task is high speed and repetitive and is exactly the kind of line-loading Danone is targeting with cobots, but it straddles the dexterity boundary — much of it is robust pick-and-place, with the contact-rich element being grip-force modulation to avoid denting/puncturing. A dropped or dented block is recoverable scrap rather than a catastrophe. There is no public Danone signal specific to robotizing this collation step. We identified this through our own research; we have not confirmed the specifics with the customer directly. This page is our researched read — a starting point for that conversation.