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Why Is Everyone’s Robot Folding Clothes?
Many of us who work in robotics have this ‘north star’ of a robot butler which can do all the chores we don’t want to do.
The most tedious part of doing your laundry might very well be folding your clean clothes once they come out of the dryer. But now, a new machine that wants to sit next to your washer and dryer is ...
No matter how organised you are, keeping everything in your wardrobe tidy is a daily struggle - one of the biggest obstacles being neatly folding your clothes. Not a fan of folding? Allow us to point ...
"Imagine handing over your laundry to a friend who folds it for you" is the rather deft way in which FoldiMate describes the benefits of its robotic clothes folding machine. The firm says its device ...
Some technologies have been around so long it’s hard to appreciate how much work it would be without them—washing machines, vacuums, and microwaves just to name a few. Thankfully, those things do ...
Folding clothes is the worst part of doing laundry. But if you can be patient enough, a small robot might be able to do the job for you. A team of researchers from University of California Berkeley ...
Get your family together to fold clothes, and then start a game of 20 Questions, I Spy or Would You Rather. Start with something silly like “Would you rather fold 400 towels or do math homework for 10 ...
The clip opens with an overhead shot of a square piece of cardboard. McCarter rolls out a tape measure to calculate the board’s dimensions. At approximately 10×10 inches, the board is shaped evenly ...
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