Went to a robotics demo in Austin and saw something wild with AI sorting

I stopped by this small warehouse in East Austin last Saturday for a live demo of a new sorting robot. The thing was picking out defective circuit boards from a moving belt, but what got me was how it learned on the fly. After just 10 minutes of running, it started catching errors it missed at first, like tiny solder bridges. Has anyone else seen these adaptive vision systems in person or just the polished YouTube videos?

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margaret5515d ago

Bet it missed some at first - did they say how many bad boards got through?

the_cameron5d ago

Yeah they did mention it. 4% false negative rate on those first 50 boards sounds about right for a system learning on the fly. The thing @the_sage didn't say is that those boards that slip through usually have really subtle defects, like micro-cracks or cold solder joints that don't show up until the thing's been running for a week. So it's not just about catching them at the start, it's about how fast the system learns to spot those weird edge cases. That's where most of the real world trouble happens in my experience.

the_sage5d ago

That demo house in Austin runs their validation at 98.7% after the first hour, but they were honest that the first 50 boards had a 4% false negative rate during the learning phase.