A system and method for automatically suspending poultry from a carrier of a carrier conveyor

A system and method for automatically suspending poul- try (8) by the legs from a carrier (6) of a carrier conveyor (5), comprising a feedline (1) for the poultry (8) to be sus- pended, wherein the system comprises an imaging device (11, 13) 5 connected to a decision-making tool (12) to process images from the poultry (8) on the feedline (1) and a vision guided robot (4) for picking up the poultry (8) from the feedline (l) and suspend the poultry (8) from the carrier (6) of the carrier conveyor (5), wherein the decision-making tool (12) is arranged 10 to detect poultry (8) with the breast engaging the feedline (1) and to control the vision guided robot (4) to pick up the poul- try (8) from the feedline (1) by engaging the poultry (8) at the legs, and subsequently suspend the poultry (8) by the legs from the carrier (6) of the carrier conveyor (5).