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> Why do you have a washing machine that sits there doing nothing 95% of the day? You literally dedicate usable space to this. That's an idea. A mobile home ro

> Why do you have a washing machine that sits there doing nothing 95% of the day? You literally dedicate usable space to this. That's an idea. A mobile home robot that does not much more than pick up dirty clothes and dirty dishes and clean'em and file'em.

prmoustache 4y ago
If we really needed that, all our homes would be already equipped with a system that move our dirty clothes to an external storage for a laundry service to pickup and a system that would pick up cleaned up and ironed clothes and would automatically store them in the correct wardrobe based on a tag system on the clothing. An automatic system similar to what manage big warehouses. It wouldn't be that complicated provided the house is build with that in mind and it could surely be retrofited to older houses by making holes in a few walls. It would be much more efficient than a mobile home robot. The reason we don't do that is we are control freaks.
- spookthesunset 4y ago
  > The reason we don't do that is we are control freaks. To be practical your service would need to pick up laundry at all hours of the day and be basically “on demand”. Cats puke on your only comforter. Kids spilled something on your fancy jeans. You need towels, stat. That being said, if the service did enough (say put the clothes away organized and folded and had a turnaround time of a few hours) people would probably find ways to work around the shortcomings of using a laundry service.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    Without any profit incentives, we could probably have a few bigger washing machines per apartment house. Then it could have reasonably short cycles.
  - euroderf 4y ago
    "Try our on-demand drone service that swoops in thru the window, cleans up that fresh cat barf, and then zooms away." -CEO Catherine "Kat" Barfaway.

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> Why do you have a washing machine that sits there doing nothing 95% of the day? You literally dedicate usable space to this. That's an idea. A mobile home ro

by euroderf 4y ago

prmoustache 4y ago
If we really needed that, all our homes would be already equipped with a system that move our dirty clothes to an external storage for a laundry service to pickup and a system that would pick up cleaned up and ironed clothes and would automatically store them in the correct wardrobe based on a tag system on the clothing. An automatic system similar to what manage big warehouses. It wouldn't be that complicated provided the house is build with that in mind and it could surely be retrofited to older houses by making holes in a few walls. It would be much more efficient than a mobile home robot. The reason we don't do that is we are control freaks.
- spookthesunset 4y ago
  > The reason we don't do that is we are control freaks. To be practical your service would need to pick up laundry at all hours of the day and be basically “on demand”. Cats puke on your only comforter. Kids spilled something on your fancy jeans. You need towels, stat. That being said, if the service did enough (say put the clothes away organized and folded and had a turnaround time of a few hours) people would probably find ways to work around the shortcomings of using a laundry service.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    Without any profit incentives, we could probably have a few bigger washing machines per apartment house. Then it could have reasonably short cycles.
  - euroderf 4y ago
    "Try our on-demand drone service that swoops in thru the window, cleans up that fresh cat barf, and then zooms away." -CEO Catherine "Kat" Barfaway.