Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by mikeash on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:03PM
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I was going to comment that it doesn’t matter how slow it is as long as it finishes overnight or whatever. Good thing I decided to actually watch the video first. What’s the point if a person has to be so involved!?
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by hughes on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:14PM
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Now we just need another robot that can take the clothes out of the dryer and lay them out flat for the folding machine.
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by pdfernhout on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:12PM
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The closest I've seen to a full solution:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/pr2...
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by Guest9812398 on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:50AM
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Watching this video, it's clearly edited.
First off, the left and right video are completely different, the left isn't a zoomed in version of the right. If you go to 43 seconds, you can see the folded clothes do not match.
Secondly, it's not a continuous shot. There is a cut when the shirts are added to the bottom part of the machine at 25 seconds, and again at 51 seconds. You need to watch carefully, but it's pretty obviously something is not right about this video.
Also, the CES videos show the same pile of clothes appearing at the bottom, regardless of what order the clothes go in the machine. I would guess the machine doesn't yet fold clothes, or maybe it has issues with certain clothing like button up shirts.
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by xbmcuser on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:51PM
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With a $5 folding board it would probably take less time effort to do the folding myself.
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by dx034 on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:11PM
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If they can combine that with a washer/dryer, I'd buy it. Dirty laundry in, folded laundry out. Doesn't matter how long it takes, can work overnight. But the video doesn't look like that would work anytime soon.
Here is a video of it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uay9hzwusk
This looks like it would take quite a lot longer than just folding the clothes yourself.