#and the boss is like we can't change the location. or put up curtains. or stop the team from changing the program. just make it work | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sharktoothjack · 4 months ago

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There's a segment of industrial technology known as "machine vision" (or occasionally "smart cameras"), which can, for example, take a photo of a conveyor belt and identify the x,y coordinates of all the green objects, or the size of the largest object, or the relative angle of the logo you've already taught it to recognize. So that your robot can pick up all the green objects, or your quality report can record the size of the glue dots, or your quality team can be alerted to fix the logo sticker. I haven't heard people calling it "AI" - it's really just a lot of image processing - but that's the kind of thing you'd want to use to identify dishes vs non dishes.

It won't work in a normal home, of course -- it really works best with an unmoving camera in a photo booth with no shadows and nobody's hands in view -- a setup that even industrial factories often fail to provide& maintain -- but it's kind of cool that it exists at all!

#I've heard so many managers say oh we'll just use a smart camera to do that #so i order the thousands of dollars of software and cameras and send them to the factory #and the factory calls us and says it's not working idk why but you gotta come fix it #and i get there and they slapped the darn thing under a skylight next to a walkway with no curtains whatsoever #and the factory's software team has overwritten the program so it just always gives the green light no matter what #and the boss is like we can't change the location. or put up curtains. or stop the team from changing the program. just make it work #👿#what you actually wanted was an entirely different sensor at a fraction of the cost but noooo you had to have the shiniest tech #and now i gotta bill you for a week of my time spent fiddling with camera settings and begging for curtains

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