The mesmerizing world of optical sorting

Optical sorters, using digital cameras, lasers, sensors and AI are increasingly used in the food, farming, pharma and increasingly waste management sectors to automate the tedious tasks of sorting, anomaly detection and quality assurance.

While the tasks are tedious, when you watch them at high speed, the motions and colors become, well - works of art

Here's a tomato color sorting machine from Weco

Here is anomaly detection in a variety of use cases using equipment from Tomra