As you pour that next glass of wine think about how many grapes went into
making it and how the grapes were selected.

Pickers get the grapes from the vine but only the ripe ones must go on
through for processing.

Traditionally this has been done manually, but an optical grape sorter
machine can do it faster.

Each morning the vintner selects 200 perfect grapes and feeds them into the
sorter which takes photos and creates a composite image of an ideal grape.

Then bulk grapes are fed in and the machine snaps a picture of each at
10,000 frames per second.

Each grape is compared to the ideal and selected for wine or ejected with a
blast of air.

Where 15 people can sort 2 tons of grapes per hour the machine takes only 12
minutes.

That kind of repetitive work is exactly what computers should be doing.

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