Slow motion of optical tomato sorter.

thats why they be bruised and soft.

Dog sorting tomatoes too

I want a machine like this ruthlessly knocking unnecessary imports out.

this machine can sort out unripe tomatoes by using a set of sensors 😁

would be better if there was a person controlling it like a pinball machine with the 2 side buttons

No tomato left unspanked

Optical sorting machines use high-speed cameras and Al-driven algorithms to categorise tomatoes

wtf is that?

And that is why I buy them on the vine.

This is how tomatoes get PTSD before becoming ketchup 😭

Those must be destinated for ketchup 🤔🫠

IT FUCKED UP AND YOU ALL SAW IT

How is it able to spot the tomatoes? Is it color or Size?

It knows by size. A laser rebounds off objects and if the object reflects enough laser then it's got a large surface area, thus clearly a tomato.

Now I know why all of the tomatoes are bruised at Kroger

I could watch this all day

However those flaps spot actually tomatoes is something I’d pay money to understand

Now I want to see it regular speed

how the average college prof imagined an AI detector would work, circa 2024

This is why grocery store tomatoes are so bland. Doing this with a tomato that's actually ripe enough to develop flavor would absolutely destroy it (and if it didn't it'd crush itself during shipping anyway)

No need for immigrants, illegal or not, to pick crops. Proof.

Tomato for sauce, lowest quality. We soet them floating in water.

Optical tomato sorters use high-speed cameras and sensors to scan each tomato's color, shape, and defects in milliseconds as they race down a conveyor. Software analyzes reflections to spot unripe, green ones, triggering precise pneumatic fingers or air jets to flick rejects away...

^— This machine is why: “Tomatoes don’t taste like they used to” In order to be able to do this sorting the tomatoes have to be picked when they are still hard. That means they aren’t ripe. All the flavor and nutrients come from ripening on the plant. So when you pick them early they end up not really tasting like much of anything. Another way to get cheap “food”.

Don’t smack my tomatoes like that… must not be Italian

@FUDdaily That's awesome.

I just saw one fall through.

harder daddy

i need this for a screensaver

how exactly is a machine able to spot the tomato?

It’s like fruit ninja

The air jets fire in precise bursts (lasting just milliseconds) and can handle up to several thousand ejections per minute without ever touching the fruit, far gentler than. These machines helped make modern supermarket tomatoes firmer and less flavorful on purpose. Breeders changed the genetics so they survive machine harvesting & sorting without turning to mush. Taste got sacrificed for logistics. Worth it?

Actual footage of why every tomato in the grocery store is in terrible shape.