SIFT AI Introduces Revolutionary Robotic Potato Sorter

Potato processing companies in the contemporary era are struggling to recruit employees for the critical task of inspecting and grading potatoes. SIFT AI unveiled its innovative Robotic Sorter last week, combining a delta robot with AI-powered vision inspection technology to efficiently sort potatoes.

Although potato-sorting sheds can efficiently process workers, defective spuds still reach customers, resulting in the unnecessary waste of good potatoes. A leading manufacturer of sorting solutions based in Westborough, Massachusetts, announced that its cutting-edge robotic sorter is capable of streamlining the closing inspection process, ensuring accurate grading and thereby increasing revenue streams, while freeing up valuable personnel to focus on more strategic tasks.

“Amid a surge in potato supply and increasing labor costs in North America, Curtis Koelling, vice chair of product development and innovation at Sensible Visionary Works, notes that many potato processors are paying premium prices for each shipment delivered.”

“According to him, managers aim to develop expertise that can help reduce production costs.” As soon as they witness a rival successfully conducting a closing inspection without disclosing labor costs, they become extremely cautious within their own domain of expertise.

SiftAI inspects potatoes for defects

In 2012, Sensible Imaginative and prescient Works pioneered the development of machine learning algorithms designed to significantly reduce the number of images required to train models. The AI system will effectively address complex computer vision challenges and deliver superior solutions for its customers.

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Utilizing cameras mounted on an overhead curler desk, SiftAI captures high-resolution images from multiple angles, meticulously capturing every detail of the potato’s surface.

Every system is designed with AI-driven algorithms that enable accurate categorization of potatoes based on their dimensions, shapes, and degrees of imperfection, including bruises, cracks, percentage of greenness, and other aesthetic considerations.

Sensible, Imaginative, and Prescient Works accelerates high-speed sorting capabilities.

When potatoes fail to meet the AI model’s quality criteria, the robotic arm is activated by SiftAI to pick up and remove the potato from the processing line at speeds ranging from 80 to 100 picks per minute, utilizing a two-robot system configuration.

Sensory AI’s SiftAI Robotic Sorter boasts precision rivaling that of human inspectors, yet surpasses them in speed and accuracy, thereby enhancing profitability while reducing buyer complaints and chargebacks. The primary business objective is to limit defective potatoes at a rate not exceeding 5%, as mandated by the U.S. regulations. Division of Agriculture.

Inspectors typically reject 10-20% of perfectly good potatoes, thereby diminishing revenue. During beta testing, the newly introduced AI-powered robot significantly reduced the incidence of overlooked flaws and inaccurately graded potatoes. By incorporating enhanced profitability and labour financial savings, Sensible Imaginative and prescient Works highlighted the significant monetary impact of this approach.

According to the corporation, the investment recoups its costs within a remarkably short span of less than two years. The system’s exceptional precision is attributed to its unique expertise, unlike traditional AI employed in most vision-based applications, which is genuinely impressive.

Built upon 12 years of pioneering work in AI research and decades of potato industry expertise, SiftAI emerges as a groundbreaking solution. Unlike programs employing optical scanners, this system captures a comprehensive digital image and processes it through a neural network, as described in Sensible Visionary Works.

The SIFT AI Robotic Sorter is available to order now.

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