The seafood processing industry faces serious challenges including the lack of labor resulting from aging and decreasing fishery population, reducing fishery resources, deteriorating facilities and equipment, and market openness such as the FTA and so on. Automation provides a valuable tool that can help them manage these challenges. In most cases automation in the seafood industry enables improved production efficiency and reduced production costs, improves working conditions in food processing factories, enhances hygiene standards, improves yield margins, increases profitability. And as tech improves, making robots and automation platforms even more flexible, they could provide even more value. In this study, the application and adoption of automation and robotics in seafood processing are described and some future trends are briefly discussed.