In Ovo Holding B.v.

Edwin Dijksterhuis

Wouter Sebastiaan Bruins

Wil Marijn Stutterheim

Leonard Van Bommel

The present disclosure relates to a computer-controlled system for non-invasively identifying the location of the air cell of an egg and determining a preferred extraction point relative to the position of the air cell of the egg, the system having an egg manipulator to hold and orient one or more eggs in a defined position; a candling unit with one or more light sources and one or more detectors; a system configured to run an algorithm for determining the location of the air cell and the preferred extraction point; and a system for positioning the egg relative to an extractor or an egg opener or vice versa from their initial position to the preferred extraction point.

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Enschede, Netherlands

Edwin Dijksterhuis