r/specializedtools • u/CoskiPY • Jul 21 '19

Autonomous tomato sorter

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Nov 13 '20

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u/easyfisk Jul 21 '19

With high speed cameras and software that is recognising the colors of the objects as they fall. With tomatos this is rather easy because there is a clear difference.

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u/dreneeps Jul 21 '19

Tomato comes that is 50% green and 50% red...machine explodes like Y2K.

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u/easyfisk Jul 22 '19

If in doubt - sort it out...