To sort Lego bricks, you just dump them in the hopper and let the machine go to work. The Universal Lego Sorter, as it's understandably called, uses a motorized belt to pull pieces out of the ...

In order to train the neural network to recognize the images of each part as captured by the sorter’s video camera, West needed access to a database of images for all the pieces Lego has ever ...

Daniel's machine can identify and sort one Lego brick every two seconds, from the entire catalog of nearly 3,000 different Lego pieces. Thanks to 3D models, available from sites like Rebrickable ...

It can identify and sort one brick every two seconds, but getting there was no simple feat. Designer Daniel West says the Universal Lego Sorter can recognize about 3,000 different Lego parts ...