Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by AdamJacobMuller on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:42PM
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Just looked at their pricing, that's a bit high...
They'd be charging me almost as much just to do wash & fold than I pay for someone to clean my whole house....
Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
by skellera on Monday January 15, 2018 @03:52PM
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So the $70 a month plan seems interesting. I spend maybe an hour on and off doing laundry a week. Add in time to start and stop whatever I’m doing so let’s say 1.5. So that’s 6 hours a month. That’s a touch less than $12 an hour. My time according to work is more valuable than that.
I can see it being worth it for people who make a decent income and spend that time doing something else. It’s pretty much the same as any service for things that need to be done regularly. As your time becomes more valuable, it makes sense to delegate those tasks off.
It's called Washbox, and it's a locker in the atrium of my apartment building. I drop my clothes off, text the locker number to the company, and my clothes will be returned clean the next day. It is, in fact, both super useful and cheap.
I'm sure they would love to automate their washing & folding process further, but those implementation details are already well abstracted from me as the end user. If I were interested in automating laundry, it seems smarter to start by targeting industrial use by existing laundry services who will be willing to pay more per unit and put up with more quirks than a home user would.