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That's both a relatively cheap price tag for a robot and a famously hard problem in robotics. You're in luck though, foldimate is aiming to launch this year for
by AlotOfReading 8y ago
That's both a relatively cheap price tag for a robot and a famously hard problem in robotics. You're in luck though, foldimate is aiming to launch this year for $1k. Given that a washer/dryer combo can be purchased separately for ~$1k, all you'd need to do is load each machine. Ain't the future cool?
- sbov 8y agoI looked at this because we've mostly given up folding clothes with our 3 kids. I watched a video of that machine and it seems to be more for people who hate the act of folding clothes instead of people who don't have the time to fold clothes. In comparison, our Roomba is a time saver because it means we don't have to do anything at all to vacuum every day.
- Ajedi32 8y agoYeah, the fact that you can't just dump a pile of cloths into the machine and get neatly folded stacks out the bottom makes it far less useful IMO. Still might save _some_ time, but not nearly as much as you might expect.
- AlotOfReading 8y agoThat's because it's fantastically difficult to manipulate soft, flexible fabrics. Building a [plausibly person-sized] robot that can reliably manage the entire laundry cycle end-to-end is hard to imagine doing on current tech no matter how much money you have. We're only going to see these sort of semi-partial solutions for a long time to come.
- sct202 8y agoFoldimate does look promising, but in the videos it looks like you have to stand their and manually feed in which seems kind of time consuming.
- sound1 8y agoI wo der why didn't they invent another robot for that job and sell as an addon...