Plate feeding equipment and method

Plate feeding equipment and a plate feeding method are disclosed, whic are suitable for transferring a plurality of stacked plates. The plate feeding equipment comprises a material transferring mechanism and a detection mechanism; the material transferring mechanism is used for sequentially transferring the stacked plates to a detection position so as to enable the plates to be detected by the detection mechanism and transferring the detected plates; the detection mechanism comprises an adsorption assembly, a detection assembly and a controller, the detection assembly comprises a detection driver and a detector, the adsorption assembly is used for adsorbing a to-be-detected plate, the detection driver is used for driving the detector to move, and the detector comprises a telescopic probe. The probe, driven by the detection driver, abuts against the to-be-detected plate and is compressed by the to-be-detected plate, the controller judges whether the plate is stacked or not according to the compression amount o