Compliant grasping of filled flexible pouches/sachets for secondary packaging

Many Nestlé products ship in flexible primary packaging — coffee and culinary sachets, pet-food pouches, powdered-beverage refills — that are floppy and whose shape and weight distribution shift as the liquid, paste or powder contents move. These filled pouches must be picked from an infeed and loaded into cartons or display trays in a defined orientation. The task is hard for a robot because the object is non-rigid and slumps unpredictably under gravity, so a fixed-geometry grasp slips or folds the pouch; success depends on sensing slip and adapting grip in real time, which is squarely AGD's deformable-handling wedge rather than rigid pick-and-place. It sits at the case-packing stage and is high-volume across the portfolio. No Nestlé-specific public statement of this exact need was found; demand is inferred from the pervasiveness of pouch/sachet formats in the portfolio. 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.