Comment by mabbo

9 years ago

With the machine working so well, you could run each sorted batch through it again, and sort into very specific pieces/colours, if you wanted.

You just need to re-train on those classes instead- but I bet the front-end of the tensorflow network would already be trained well enough that re-training for new classes would be very fast.

IIRC the machine sorts like that already, but you can't have a bin for every separate type - you'd need a warehouse of boxes, and the boxes would have to be of several sizes. So I think the pictures just illustrate how he's chosen to cluster for now, as an example to people who try to decide how they'd actually want their purchase to be grouped.

  • Correct. A typical bin contains many different part ids but it would be trivial to make other divisions.

    • Neat!

      So each item is actually identified right down to the size, colour, type, etc, but then literally bucketed into a group of similar items?

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  • One approach that seems obvious is to re-sort based on orders. If someone wants 30 different piece types, but all in blue, that'll be a pain. But if someone wants any subcategory of what's already identified, that could be approached by pulling the existing box for a new sorting run.