Systems and methods for automated cutting of lumber

An automated cutting system, the system comprising:

• a loading module having a robot arm and a conveyor that receives lumber from a loading area and places the lumber on a cutting table and that places cut lumber onto an unloading area;
• an actuating module having at least one of a rack and pinion, a rail, a conveyor, rollers, a piston and a second robot arm, that receives the lumber from the loading module, and that positions the lumber on the cutting table in preparation for cutting;
• a sensor module that detects a position of the lumber on the cutting table, characterizes a curvature of the lumber, and records the curvature of the lumber and the position as lumber information, wherein the sensor is one or more of an optical detector, a photoelectric sensor, an encoder, a linear encoder, or a rotary encoder;
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• a cutting module that cuts the lumber based the lumber information, the cutting resulting in cut lumber wherein the cutting module is one or more of a saw, a circular saw, a cutter and a robot cutter.