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I 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 t
by ninininino 2y ago
I 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.