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I believe a robo-picker would not mistake the clearly coded cucumber for zucchini, nor would the well-trained AI allow non-ideal produce into the sorting bins.
by hbosch 9y ago
I believe a robo-picker would not mistake the clearly coded cucumber for zucchini, nor would the well-trained AI allow non-ideal produce into the sorting bins. No need to worry.
- gambiting 9y agoA robo picker would pick up a cucumber and not notice it's rotten on one side though, unless we assume that the robots will scan the entire item and somehow figure out what is good and what is not using AI - but I think that would prove to be an extremely difficult problem and ultimately not worth the effort.
- alexhawdon 9y agoI believe it would though. It's already happening higher up the supply chain where conveyor belts of produce are graded using computer vision (and other techniques, I'm sure). This is about moving these techniques further down the chain. A robot picker arm with a few cameras attached that can tell whether something is rotten is well within our grasp. (Awful pun intended!)
- throwawayhzm 9y agoThis seems like an awful lot of time, money, and energy to pick produce, which you, a human, can already do. It just involves going outside (I know, scary thought).