Robotic Formulation System for Custom Edible Compositions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional dietary supplements and therapeutics are often formulated in fixed batches, failing to account for individual genetic, physical, and medical needs, leading to inefficiencies and difficulties in consumption for individuals with dysphagia, cognitive impairments, or those taking multiple medications, necessitating a customized and user-friendly solution.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for assembling multiple compounds into a single, edible custom composition using a database of health and genetic profiles, a formulation algorithm, and a robotic system that blends ingredients in precise proportions, incorporating taste preferences and safety reviews, utilizing semi-solid media like hydrogels for stable and palatable delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If fixed batch formulations are used for dietary supplements and therapeutics, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but individual customization and effectiveness are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the formulation process into discrete digital components that can be individually selected and combined. Each supplement ingredient, dosage amount, and formulation parameter is represented as a separate digital element that can be independently customized based on individual patient needs while maintaining efficient automated manufacturing through digital orchestration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables dynamic adjustment of formulation parameters including ingredient selection, dosage amounts, and physical characteristics based on individual patient profiles. Digital formulations can be rapidly modified by changing parameter values without reconfiguring manufacturing equipment, allowing personalized customization while maintaining manufacturing efficiency through software-based control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple pills and tablets are required for customized formulations, then individual needs are addressed, but ease of consumption is worsened for individuals with dysphagia and cognitive impairments
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple discrete supplement ingredients and therapeutic components into a single integrated oral formulation. By combining multiple active ingredients, flavorings, and functional components into one unified product, the system eliminates the need for patients to take multiple separate pills while maintaining the customized formulation needed to address individual health needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal oral formulation platform that can accommodate multiple different ingredients and customization scenarios within a single product type. This multi-functional approach allows the same basic formulation structure to serve diverse individual needs through variable ingredient selection and dosage adjustment, rather than requiring different delivery forms for different patients.
3Ease of manufacture
If conventional one-size-fits-all formulations are used, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but consumer compliance and desired outcomes are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service formulation generation where the digital platform automatically creates personalized supplement formulations based on input patient data. The system self-adjusts ingredient selection, dosage amounts, and formulation parameters without requiring manual intervention, maintaining manufacturing simplicity through automated digital-to-manufacturing workflows while ensuring each patient receives a customized formulation that improves compliance.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables customized, easy-to-consume dietary supplements and therapeutics tailored to individual needs, improving compliance and efficacy by providing a stable, palatable, and precise delivery of nutritional and pharmacological components.
Implementation Method 1
A compound database may include normative dose data, contraindications, depletions, and graded research indicating science evidence correlation score to health conditions. One or more subsystems may include semi-solid storage and stable media for the compounds selected such that the individual or multi-compounds are suspended in the media in a uniform and homogeneous distribution throughout the volume of a container for the media.
Data Source
AI summary
The one or more embodiments disclosed herein provide a method for automatically assembling multiple compounds into a single edible custom composition, in which each compound is individually customized to proportions formulated from a profile of an individual or group. The single custom mixture can contain a plurality of compounds including foods or flavors, nutritional additives, herbals, biologics, or pharmacologically active substances. Using the method and a related algorithm, the formulation of a custom mixture is suggested.