Startup will use AI to sort your LEGO bricks for you

European startup Sort A Brick uses AI to sort through piles of jumbled LEGO bricks, organise them by set, and send them back to you.

Founded in 2022, Sort A Brick aims to give old bricks a new lease of life and make LEGO collectors’ jobs easier through its AI-powered machine. The startup has built a system that can recognise, sort, and organise used LEGO bricks automatically, so customers can send in piles of unsorted bricks and have them set back in ready-to-build bundles.

Sort A Brick has announced plans to raise more than £2.5 million in its next round of seed funding to scale up its operations. As it stands, the company can also ‘sell’ a limited number of spots per month for people wanting to get their bricks sorted. The services are only open for those based in Germany for now, with plans to reach the rest of the EU and the US soon.

A €20 refundable deposit is required to secure a pre-order for a sorting slot. Once you send your bricks in, the price for brick analysing and groupingwill be calculated according to costs of €10 per kilo of bricks you send. There are also two-way shipping costs, breaking down as €25 for parcels between five and 8.5kg, €45 for parcels between nine and 14.5kg, and €60 for parcels between 15 and 20kg.

Sorting pieces into set bundles costs €25 per kilo, and there’s also an additional optional service to source missing bricks you need for a set from stores like BrickLink and BrickOwl. The cost of that depends on the cost of the LEGO parts in question.

If you’ve ever been faced with a mixed bundle of miscellaneous LEGO bricks, you’ll know the struggle of sorting. Sort A Brick’s machine could be a game-changer for LEGO fans, as well as extending the lifetime of bricks that might otherwise get thrown away rather than sorted.

It echoes efforts from the LEGO Group itself to put old LEGO bricks to good use through initiatives like LEGO Replay, only with Sort A Brick you get to keep your own elements.

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