AI-powered technology transforms crab sorting with cutting-edge precision and efficiency

Silicon Valley startup SeafoodAI, which originally partnered with NEC X as part of Elev X! Ignite Batch 9, is addressing one of the crab industry’s long-standing challenges: manual sorting and regulatory compliance. With a limited labor pool, shrinking profit margins, and increasing regulatory demands, the company’s CrabScan360 system is designed to enhance the speed, precision, and visibility of crab processing from the dock onward.

“SeafoodAI directly leveraged NEC X’s expertise in biometric image recognition and artificial intelligence, rapidly advancing its technology during the program,” says Rob Terry, CEO and Founder of SeafoodAI. “CrabScan360 is simple to use—you place a crab on the scanner, and it instantly measures and logs its weight and size … it takes something that used to be manual and inconsistent and makes it fast, accurate, and easy for fieldwork.”

Read the full article in National Fisherman’s April 30, 2025 feature titled “ SeafoodAI’s CrabScan360: AI-powered crab sorting revolution”