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I recently came across this video of a color sensing tomato sorting machine.

Really shifted my mental ranking of where agricultural processing was at.

About 20 years ago (Holy shit!) I worked in a potato processing facility. They had multiple belts all about 8' wide that ran through a machine that scanned 100s / 1000's of dehydrated potato flakes for quality every second and could hit a specific flake with a burst of air to blow it off one line and into another. 20 yrs ago. I believe they went under / were bought up by a more modern company 5 or so yrs ago.

Why? Seems pretty basic and simplistic.

I'm more impressed by the various types of field harvesters

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