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They're also occasional problems. A typical household does 1-3 loads of dishes per day, and a few loads of laundry per week. The easy-to-automate parts of these
by mikepurvis 7y ago
They're also occasional problems. A typical household does 1-3 loads of dishes per day, and a few loads of laundry per week. The easy-to-automate parts of these tasks have already been automated, and now only the hardest/suckiest parts remain.
Restaurants and hotels do dozens of loads of dishes and laundry every day, so that additional expense and complexity required to automated the final 10% of these tasks is much easier to justify. So if you want to build a machine the folds laundry, don't build something ridiculous like the Foldimate, build a machine that folds bedding for a hotel.
- stevekemp 7y agoIf you've got a child or two you might find you do laundry every day. We certainly do, although I appreciate using cloth diapers makes that more necessary than it might otherwise be. But yes, hotels, prisons, hospitals, and similar places would be the initial target-markets for anything laundry-related.
- mikepurvis 7y agoI do have three kids, and we cloth-diapered the first two, so yeah you're right that alone is several more loads a week. Though we only ever did it on alternate days, and the burden of folding the CD loads is way less— we basically just stacked them all up in pile under the change table.