• Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 days ago

    Holla at me when there’s an AI clothes robot.

    It’s a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:

    NPR timelapse gif animation from 2015 of BRETT the "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks" taking 10 minutes to fold a towel

    It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!