The BrickIt team in Denmark has built a robotic system to sort LEGO bricks. The “Dynaway Sorting Plant” uses 28 Mindstorms NXT motors, 7 processors, 4 color sensors, and 14 touch sensors, and took over 250 hours of programming time plus 800 hours to build. The result is an amazing system that separates 2×4 and 1×2 bricks by both shape and color and then moves the pallets full of sorted bricks.
Read more about the sorting machine on BrickIt.dk.
I need a couple of those for my store. :)
This is amazing!
I don’t know. Thirty-seven and a half thousand bricks and so much NXT and all it does is sort 2×4 and 1×2 by size and color…
I think this one is much better:
http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-techvideo-2011-51-single-motor.html
Uses a single motor that runs always in the same direction – sorts bricks by size. Now that is an accomplishment!