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I feel like the solution to these problems might be to use something like rapid 3D printing technology to create and recycle the dishes or clothing. The dish m
by dsnuh 9y ago
I feel like the solution to these problems might be to use something like rapid 3D printing technology to create and recycle the dishes or clothing.
The dish machine would print using a biodegradable material that could either be recycled back into the machine for reprinting or composted if it is unable to be cleaned.
For clothing I imagine a knitting machine that prints 3D garments on demand using fibers and can also recycle the clothing to reuse the fibers at the end of the wear cycle.
Edit: my main point being that I don't see these being technically solvable using the legacy methods we have created thus far. Why try to make a machine complex enough to identify and fold specific clothing? Why not create a machine that can create something very basic and we adjust our expectations and style.
- BigJono 9y agoWe could always just move the goalposts a bit. I don't need my clothes folded, I'd be over the moon with a robot that can wash and dry my clothes, then spread them loosely and haphazardly over a "clothes shelf" or something, just spread out enough that I can pick what I need out of the pile without rummaging.
- dsnuh 9y agoYeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't need Rosie The Robot, maybe just a nifty conveyor belt system or something.
- rsynnott 9y ago> I'd be over the moon with a robot that can wash and dry my clothes, then spread them loosely and haphazardly over a "clothes shelf" or something So, what you want is, er, a washer-dryer which performs the additional task of tipping the clothes on the floor when it's done? Washer-dryers exist; they're very common in some European countries. The clothes ejection feature sounds like a minor addition.