Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’

Re:Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’ by aidenn0 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:59PM (#10428208)

I think you underestimate the quality of a thousand hand sorters. That machine may replace on the order of a hundred hand sorters, but I doubt it's 1000.

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Re:Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’ by Animats on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:19PM (#10428376)

6 metric tons of peas per hour per machine. The machine examines the pea from all sides while the pea is in free fall. A human would have to pick up each pea to do a comparable job. A kilogram of peas is about 4000 peas, so 1000 humans would each have to examine 24,000 peas per hour each, or 6 peas per second, to keep up.

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Re:Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’ by aidenn0 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:04PM (#10428688)

Okay, 6000 peas per second is more than a thousand people could do. I was basing my response off your original description of "hundreds of peas per second" while I know humans can sort at a rate of more than 1 pea per second.

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