That's probably because you already have a robot that does 90% of your dish washing. A dishwasher.

But none of the loading and unloading yet, unfortunately.

Folding clothes is super hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo

We already have a robot that does 90% of the laundry too. Washing laundry by hand is a lot harder than washing dishes.

I agree though that folding clothes is a hard job to automate, as simple as it seems. And that I would love to have a robot that could do it!

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/73/36/c6/7336c66c64b0410793a708521...

Just get a $5-10 folding board makes folding a lot easier and faster.

Even without the dishwasher I'd still take a laundry machine. Our dishwasher broke a few weeks ago and I did the dishes by hand for a while. It wasn't that bad.

Agreed. I don't mind washing the dishes at all. Another thing that is excruciating in a family: cleaning children's rooms. My god, where do they get all that crap. A robot that would tidy, clean, and purge the unnecessary crap that children accumulate would be incredible - and, I imagine, incredibly difficult to create.

Incentivise it. The threat of no iPad all weekend is highly motivating to our kids. (Although sometimes they really can't be bothered and they spend the whole weekend outside instead; but I see that as a win too.)

Maybe a robot that teaches your kids to clean their own rooms would be more realistic, at least if we are to believe Eric Schmidt.

Ah. Like a cute robot puppy that detects clutter and then plays sad music while "crying". I like the way you think.

So we're just too lazy to be a parent now?

In the future, the robots will be better parents than us.

Currently I have my bathroom next to the laundry room. I can't do what I have in mind in this apartment, but one day I would like to.

1. Make three slots (whites, colors, baby clothes) in higher part of the wall between the bathroom and the laundry room.

2. Get three high plastic boxes. Set one below every slot. Make a big hole at lower part of every box. That's a washing queue for every kind of clothing.

3. Place a combo washer dryer below boxes to make loading efficient. Place also something like washing powder dispenser right above the detergent drawer of the machine.

4. Use the laundry room also as a walk-in closet. So you can hang clothes straight from the machine.

Sorting is done by slots. Instead of folding use cloth hangers. Ironing is mostly done by the dryer.

Given everything comes pre washed, stretched and colour fast, who still bothers separating clothes these days....I do towels and linen separate to clothes at best and not even consistently

Because you still want to bleach your whites. Sheets, towels, t-shirts from the gym... bleach goes all over that stuff, and it smells great! (And yeah, anyone who doesn't have white towels is doing it wrong. Eww, can you imagine all the filthy on a towel that hasn't been bleached?!)

Separate cloths by colour, and by type (glad you're doing half of that already!)... you wouldn't wash jeans with dress shirts... let the machine's auto-sense take care of the quantity / duration issues.

> Eww, can you imagine all the filthy on a towel that hasn't been bleached?!

I assume you also bleach your underwear and socks? T-shirts? Gloves? Pants? Dish towels? Sheets?

I separate synthetics because the dryer damages them and I don't want to do it when they're a wet mess.

I separate my clothes. I separate some because I’m going to hang them and it’s easier to separate while dry. I separate others because they have wildly different levels of durability and ruggedness. I don’t want my jeans abraiding my button ups.

Agreed. You can easily do meals such that there's very minimal hand washing and 95% goes through the dishwasher, and kids can do packing/unpacking from a fairly young age.

Yes, we've got the actual clothes washing (and sometimes drying) handled now, but sort/fold/iron takes SO much time, easily the biggest chore.

I didn't have a dishwasher for four years in the city until we moved to an apartment that had one. "Big deal, I don't need it, I like doing dishes."

Turns out, that doing dishes is fun and easy when you're cooking for two and not spending most of your free time taking care of a new baby.

I miss that dishwasher.

There's no task I despise more than washing dishes. I'm a perfectionist and my hands are sufficiently big enough that it can take over an hour to clean 2-3 days of dishes, for one person dinners, to feel comfortable with their cleanliness.

Dishes are much easier to wash right after they're used. We got into this habit in my household and it's a real time saver. Also, I enjoy not having that feeling that there's something left to do.

Don’t leave dishes piling up for 3 days if you don’t want to spend a long time cleaning. The food dries on and of course the total number of dishes is 3x as high as if you cleaned daily.

I would assume that my method of dish cleaning is a linear time invariant system(because only the first few seconds are used to clean off food that I can visibly see; I spend much more time making sure I vigorously cleaned every spot of the dish) so whether I do it now or later, it's still going to cost the same amount of time.

I assume this behavior came from somewhere? I've lived with people that would leave bits of food on a plate when they wash it. But this tends to only be a problem when the dish sit there for a while, if you clean up immediately there is no need to be as anal about it.

Pro tip: Get a scrubber with soap in the handle like this, can't recommend them enough: https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Dishwand-Non-Scratch-Friendly-...

> I assume this behavior came from somewhere

I have no idea to be honest.

> Pro tip: Get a scrubber with soap in the handle like this, can't recommend them enough: https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Dishwand-Non-Scratch-Friendly-....

Thank you! I appreciate the recommendation!

This. If you live by yourself, also try going minimal on your dish set. One plate, one bowl, one fork, etc. Dishes can’t pile up if there is only one set.

But you can already get this service without a robot, for example with Cleanly. For dishes this is far less cost effective.

Even just ironing would do it...