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Saw a robot arm sorting tomatoes at the Corvallis farmers market and had to stop walking
There was a little booth near the entrance with a UR5 arm that a couple of Oregon State students built. It picked up 3 tomatoes in a row and sorted them by color using a tiny camera, and I stood there watching for like 10 minutes. The guy said it gets it right about 80% of the time now, which blew my mind for a $300 setup. Anyone else seen small scale stuff like this popping up at local markets yet?
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pat9542h ago
That UR5 arm is actually a good bit more than $300 if we're talking the real thing. A used UR5 goes for like $20k+ on the secondary market, sometimes way more depending on age. What those students probably did was use a cheap clone arm or a smaller desktop one and just call it a UR5, or the $300 was just the camera and gripper and controller parts. The arm itself is where all the money goes in robotics, the vision and code side has gotten crazy cheap thanks to open source stuff. Either way 80% accuracy on tomato color sorting is solid for a student build.
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