DOKTEK VISION · apricot application
Engineered per applicationApricot Sorting Machine
Apricots — fresh or dried — are sorted by colour, size, shape and surface condition. DOKTEK's vision platform applies those criteria to each fruit individually and separates it robotically, as shown in DOKTEK's own sorting footage.
Demonstrated on apricots in DOKTEK's robotic sorting video; each plant's classes, criteria and throughput are engineered and validated as their own application.
Machine summary
- Status
- Engineered per application — demonstrated on apricot
- Criteria
- Colour, size, shape, surface defects, visible contamination
- Separation
- Robotic pick-and-place or pneumatic rejection
- Product
- Fresh and dried apricots — evaluated per product
- Accuracy
- Validated on the customer's fruit; no generic figure is published
What Sorting Apricots Involves
Fresh apricots are graded for ripeness colour, size and blemishes ahead of packing or processing. Dried apricots are sorted for colour uniformity, size, shape defects, sun-drying damage, foreign material and visible contamination. Both are visual judgements that manual lines make piece by piece — and inconsistently, as shifts and light change.
How the DOKTEK System Handles It
Fruit passes a camera station under controlled illumination. Detection models locate each apricot, measure it and classify its colour and surface condition against the plant's classes. The decision is executed by a separation stage — robotic handling in the demonstrated configuration — synchronised to the conveyor.
The demonstration footage on the videos page shows the robotic system selecting apricots and dried figs. It is DOKTEK's own machine and DOKTEK's own recording.
- Per-fruit detection and measurement
- Colour and defect classification against defined classes
- Robotic separation synchronised to the belt
- Criteria documented per application
What Is Not Claimed
No sorting accuracy, reject rate or throughput is published, because those numbers depend on the fruit, the classes and the line. Visible surface indicators are what a camera can judge; internal quality and laboratory parameters are outside the system's scope unless a specific sensing method is engineered and validated for them.
What is confirmed today
Confirmed: robotic sorting of apricots is demonstrated in DOKTEK's own footage.
Not published: accuracy, throughput, price and delivery — validated per application.
Next step
Send Apricot Samples
A sorting review needs the full quality range, not just good fruit.
- 01Fresh or dried
- 02Samples across all grades, including rejects
- 03The classes required
- 04Current sorting method and operators
- 05Target throughput
- 06Country
Frequently asked questions
Questions before a machine evaluation.
01Does it sort fresh or dried apricots?
Both are evaluated as separate applications, because the criteria differ. The demonstration footage shows dried product; fresh fruit is validated on samples.
02What accuracy does it reach?
No generic figure is published. Accuracy is validated on the customer's fruit against the customer's classes during the application project.
03Can it detect internal defects?
The vision system judges what a camera can see. Internal quality needs a specific sensing method, which is engineered and validated only where a project requires it.
Next step
Send product details for an engineering review.
Share product photos, a short production video, your current method and target output. DOKTEK FoodTech will confirm what can be evaluated for your line.