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Apple Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics
- melling 2y agoThe device could respond to commands, such as “look at me,” It doesn’t seem very robotic.
- dudeofea 2y agoI'm the robot now
- ninininino 2y agoI want them to make a clothes-washing-and-drying device that has a hopper you throw dirty clothes into and when enough clothes are in it, it turns on and then they come out on other end hung up dried, neatly on a clothing rack with no creases or wrinkles (but done through steaming not through an iron). So from dirty to hung-up with no manual human steps.
- sudosysgen 2y agoWe recently have had the technology to do this (I helped on a household robotics project last year where folding cloth was a task). As a ADHD afflict, I would love nothing more, but I didn't see a way to do it affordably. I fully expect it within a few years, though, perhaps with RFID tags for folding and cleaning instructions.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoRobot, please separate clothes by size and gender.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoRobot: Please upload your pronouns first
- fragmede 2y ago> hung up dried, neatly on a clothing rack with no creases or wrinkles That is a surprisingly difficult thing for a robot/machine to do, with the SOTA still requiring speeded up video in demos for clothes folding. The difficult part is I the digitizing and manipulation, so hanging it on a hangar with robot arms is approximately as difficult.
- rolph 2y agoi think the most diffuculty would be the task of prepping a crumpled up ball of several articles of clothing, to ready for folding, individual articles, and all whilenot tearing it to rags. perhaps if the clothing was hung to begin with rather than hoppered. a piece of clothing hanging straight would be easier to fold, but the entire scheme would require more space for typical laundry loads.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoThe dishwasher is slower than hand washing but it still mostly eliminates the task.
- sudosysgen 2y agoThe SOTA is about 2-3 minutes per clothing item. That's pretty slow, but more than fast enough - who generates more than 1 dirty cloth per half hour? Besides, the critical source of latency will be washing and drying either way.
- Animats 2y agoIt's quite do-able, but the home-sized folding robots from a few years ago were too expensive. They do such a small part of the laundry task that they're not useful. The industrial-strength laundry folding robots do work.[1] But that's for hospital laundries that need to clean and fold thousands of scrubs per day. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTuwKu5fY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTuwKu5fY0
- nanomonkey 2y agoHow about if you just hung it up dirty, and it went through a supercritical CO2 cleaner, and then transitioned to a clean section of your closet?
- ninininino 2y agoHang up dirty version is a good incremental product.
- jazzyjackson 2y agohttps://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/air-dresser/air-dresser/airdresser-grand-clothing-care-system-with-steam-refresh-and-sanitize-in-mirror-finish-df10a9500cg-a1/ https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/air-dresser/air-d...
- ninininino 2y agointeresting, this seems like it would remove less dirt/soot from clothing perhaps? Is there a reason they only say sanitize but not clean?
- dialup_sounds 2y ago"What if there were a sauna...for your trousers?"
- al_borland 2y agoPanasonic made a concept that is something like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn5iV0MLUi4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn5iV0MLUi4
- nashashmi 2y agomany are working on this. companies that do laundry for a living will be the prime users.
- rolph 2y agotabletop arena interface coming soon i hope. "bot, prepare lunch". [loads ingredients on table]. [selects from proffered menu]. lunch is prepared. next comes an overhead rail for transit to various stations.
- bitwize 2y ago"They told me never, ever, EVER to disengage myself from my management rail, or I would DIE. But we're out of options here, so get ready to catch me on the off chance that I'm not dead the moment I pop off this thing."
- Ancalagon 2y agoHaven’t we tried the home robot screen-helpers enough already? We don’t want it unless it does the dishes better than a dishwasher. Can’t we just focus on iterating Apple Vision Pro? I still think there’s a ton of potential there.
- willhackett 2y agoAnother device for the e-waste pile. I'd rather pay for working software than another iDevice.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI don't have access to the full article, but ... it's basically just a screen that can swivel to follow you? That doesn't sound particularly exciting, interesting, or useful. > The company now has a team of several hundred people working on the device, which uses a thin robotic arm to move around a large screen, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
- pazimzadeh 2y agothe tabletop part is what sounds limiting. but if it could follow you around the house, that could be useful
- naikrovek 2y agoUhh. I like being able to walk away from things. I do not need my devices following me when I poop or go to bed.
- thehoff 2y agoSo don’t buy it?
- naikrovek 2y agoWorry not. I won’t buy any device that follows me automatically.
- scopendo 2y agoDon't ever get a cocker spaniel then
- bitwize 2y agoOr a Catahoula.
- throwaway48540 2y agoI recommend getting doors, it's very effective at preventing entry of unwanted objects.
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- quitit 2y agoProbably a good time to be reminded that Apple (and many others) seed fake projects to those under NDA to sniff out leaks.
- dangus 2y agoIs it really that unrealistic to think that Apple might want to sell their own version of a Nest Hub?
- al_borland 2y agoOn its own, no. With a robot arm, yes. The idea sounds absurd (at least what I could read of it before the paywall). Either it’s fake, or Apple is so desperate to innovate that they lost touch with reality and how real people actually live. At best this sounds like a little skunkworks project just to see how something like that could work, not something with hundreds of people driving toward a release. Where would a robot arm with an iPad on the end be a better solution than Vision Pro?
- barkerja 2y ago> Where would a robot arm with an iPad on the end be a better solution than Vision Pro? On my kitchen counter, where I currently have an iPad Pro that is stationary and I wish nearly every day it would follow me as I move about the kitchen whilst cooking.
- al_borland 2y agoI’ve seen demos of people using the Vision Pro while cooking. It seems better. Timers could be places in space about the pots on the stove, the user can interact with recipes or whatever when their hands are dirty, and they probably wouldn’t tear up while cutting onions. A robot arms will only move so much, I don’t see it being able to follow someone around a kitchen.
- barkerja 2y ago
- bitwize 2y agoThis is just Jeebo. Seems a bit tacky for Apple, but if Apple did it it would work and be well supported. People would want to buy it.
- gigel82 2y agoI think Apple has too much money. We need some DOJ investigation for monopolistic behavior like yesterday.