At AutoBrick we build automatic brick sorters. Load a mixed bin, tell it which set you're after, and it identifies each piece and separates the ones you want from the ones you don't.
Three stages, start to finish. You load the bin and pick a set. AutoBrick handles the rest.
Pour a mixed bin into the loading hopper. Partial sets, bulk lots, whatever's been sitting in the box. As long as the bricks are pulled apart, AutoBrick can work with them.
AutoBrick gets the bricks to the camera one piece at a time. A machine-learning model then reads each piece and looks up what it is.
Pieces that belong to your set go into one bin, everything else into another. Pick the set you're rebuilding and AutoBrick routes each piece for you.
Recover the parts for a specific set, or break a big mixed lot down by shape and color. You choose the mode. The machine sorts it.
AutoBrick reads each brick by its shape, so it can tell a 1x2 plate from a 1x2 tile, not just sort by color. The catalog it draws on grows as the software improves.
Once it's loaded and set, AutoBrick keeps itself fed. A camera watches the flow and paces the motors so pieces don't pile up. You can leave it running and come back to sorted bins.
From the home collector with a few mixed sets to a reseller working through bulk inventory, we're building solutions for both. The right machine looks different at each scale, and that's the range we're designing for.
The sorting runs on software we keep working on, so identification and the range of parts it handles get better without you changing anything on the machine. As new sets come out, the goal is for AutoBrick to learn them too.
The hard part was never knowing which brick you need. It's finding it in a bin of ten thousand others. That's the part we're automating.
AutoBrick is still being built, and early members help decide what it should do first. Joining is free, takes under a minute, and tells us who we're building for.