This one isn't going to catch on. It's enormous and takes 5-12 minutes to fold each item. And all the folding happens inside a big grey box, so you don't even get to see any cartoon-style robot hands working their magic.
However, the next version will have a washer and dryer incorporated. That might have more success. Imagine just bunging your dirty laundry into a device, pressing a button and coming back a few hours later to clean folded laundry... well it's hardly the invention of the steam engine but I can see people buying it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38541533
Yeah, who needs clothes folding? The full process, washing, drying and folding is useful. Although I still don't care about the folding. Can it iron things?
ReplyDeleteI never do ironing or folding, I just hang them. Really the only marginal amount of effort this takes is hanging them to dry first since I don't have a dryer. And occasionally forgetting to take them out of the machine at all because it doesn't beep when its finished. The only household chore that takes any time for me is washing the dishes, and there's already a machine invented that can do that... of course, it's different if there are five of you.
ReplyDeleteWhat would be really neat would be a gardening robot. Gardens are nice, gardening isn't. Also something that can clean up dog poop.