Laundroid robot folds clothes... and undies

Forget folding your own laundry. This giant box does it using image analysis and a robotic arm.
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[@pointlessfailure]

There's probably just a guy sitting on a stool fold everything inside.

[@bilshaw8116]

pointlessfailure yeah, from china !! too early? lol

[@JWEX500]

it would be funnier if they weren't actually from Tokyo...

[@Sonny377]

Meanwhile, My hot pocket is still frozen in the middle...

[@BosleyBeats]

Lava Cynical preach. 🙌🏾 preach.

[@hellschatt]

Why did this tech excite me more than most others? The future will be amazing.

[@jonathandiaz6]

5 minutes for one shirt, still cool tho maybe if I'm rich one day I can't stand laundry

[@justinus64]

well i mean if you leave it , it would do it automatically

[@BosleyBeats]

Hurileno exactly. It's more about imagine having a dresser with this tech built into it. Just dump your clothes into the drawers and come back to folded clothes... yes please lawd 🙌🏾

[@jalene150]

Jonathan Diaz if you're rich, you could just hire a maid(or better yet, wait till we get badass robo assistants. )

[@jonathandiaz6]

jalene150 lol maybe one day

[@markowens6728]

jalene150 people gonna have sex with artificial intelligence in the future watch them make a sex robot.

[@WrenCubes]

Remember when we said, "Soon, a robot will be able to fold our clothes"

[@TheGarvito]

i need this in my life

[@icegiant1000]

5 minutes per t-shirt is still faster than me... because I dont get around to it for days, if at all. My god I want one. Sob... sob... please for the love of god. Now if they can make the whole thing a one shot deal... put clothes in the top... they come out dry and folded at the bottom... come on who wouldnt take out a car loan for that???

[@JosephLeBlanc]

finally! I hate doing laundry!

[@leonscott543]

The tear down will reveal a kidnapped mom in there slaving them clothes lol smh

[@legolas7r]

I need this ! Because I waste HOURES to fold my laundry :(

[@PlamenDrop]

This is much better than that voice controlled trash can.

[@123breton]

how much??? give us number?? what type of news is this?? give us every single detail $$$$

[@93Legit]

Breton Luna 50,000

[@J4ckCr0w]

2 years ago.

[@kiners2000]

cannot fold socks lol

[@AndrewMeyer]

"though we can't show you what goes on inside because that's all patented technology" Uh... that's not how patents work. In fact, if it's patented in the US that actually means is _has_ to be public information registered with the US patent office. Just give me the patent numbers and 2 minutes on Google and I can easily pull up all the relevant details right now.

[@douglasgoldfarb3421]

Can you make a better artificial intelligence simulations douglas goldfarb of a robot which does laundry

[@loganolsen4656]

I need that thing

[@JWEX500]

They should have a dryer built-in so that people too lazy to fold laundry don't have to go through all the trouble of transporting clothes from one machine to another.

[@wastedyouth70]

There is so much concern about computers and robots taking over the World, like Skynet... and they cannot even pair up and fold socks!

[@yaynative]

Where have you been all my li-i-i-i-i-ife?

[@mothereric8774]

Fitted Sheets?

[@Pieterseboy]

but why kanye's instrumental in the beginning?

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

omg I need this.

[@Chris-is-awesome]

how much?

[@Jack-hx8yz]

They censor a machine really

[@alex91008]

JackPlaysOfficial it's patented...

[@Jack-hx8yz]

alex91008 so?

[@DesuVR]

And it's gonna cost at least a thousand dollars I bet. You can buy a washer AND dryer for that much.

[@theskeletonboi]

I'd say it will cost more around $8,000 (if they really managed to get costs down). One thousand dollars is insanely cheap, no way even our most efficient manufacturing methods can get a device of this complexity under $1,500. Do washers and dryers fold your clothes for you? No, this is an additional add-on that would be a huge time saver.

[@BroccoliBeefed]

Try $14,000....

[@meistro32]

I'm afraid if i install one of these in my house, i will start noticing food going missing :/

[@livevenue807]

You could hire a personal maid for $110K...

[@wrathzero]

pfft. it's not like it's new. there was something like this last year. what happened to it?

[@PredatorOwnz04]

wrathzero it's right here. this is more advanced, I watch the demo at ces it took about 10 minutes to fold one thing. it was a waste of time, I felt bad for the person deming the unit, this thing sucked

[@erikcarter4008]

child labor. That's the patent. hungry children from developing countries = profit

[@kalagovindan215]

where can i buy this

[@billyboy8888]

they went belly up in 2019

[@Q974]

Why wouldn't they show us whats inside if it's aleady "Patented technology" I mean no one will copy them if it's patented

[@BroccoliBeefed]

@Q she used the wrong word. She meant to say it is a trade secret or proprietary secret

[@disciprine]

wow sad. this is the product I was hoping to come from kuna

[@BroccoliBeefed]

5 minutes to fold a shirt? Are you freaking kidding me? :/

[@kevincondna8784]

Can it fold a thong?

[@Shahaaim]

are we THAT lazy?

[@alex91008]

Shahaaim do you not like innovations that make our life easier? Technology that takes care of our everyday mundane tasks is one of the ultimate goals of technology. People said the exact same things about automatic vacuum cleaners years ago but now it's commonplace in many developed nations. Things like this will become cheaper over time and people will appreciate the convenience.

[@Shahaaim]

Yeah true, I do agree with you. I do like innovations that makes our life easier. But don't you feel people are becoming more and more lazy because of some technology advances?

[@BroccoliBeefed]

@Shahaaim, say you who probably has a clothes washer, clothes dryer and dishwasher in his house. People used to do all the tasks those machines do by hand. So why the prejudice against a laundry folding machine?

[@dannysmith5178]

only lazy rich people will buy this SLOW machine

[@alex91008]

Danny Smith you know that's what skeptics said when the first car came out. They hated the idea of a noisy machine that did the same thing a horse could do. They didn't realize the convenience of it and thought it would just die. Skeptics like you are the ones that slow down progress in the world.

[@paestum70]

I can't believe people are so poorly educated they need this thing. It's sad.

[@jacobcook245]

We don't need it. We just want it, to save time.

[@spedracer55]

lazy

[@stvnk1m]

Who's going to buy it? Rich lazy people I guess.

[@alex91008]

A majority of wealthy people didn't get rich from sitting on their asses all day. They worked hard for it so they can have a good life and buy things that make their life better and easier in their downtime.

[@stvnk1m]

alex91008 looks like you got inherited from your parents. Did they loan you million dollars?

[@COOLGODBOSS]

Maybe he won the jackpot......or has a unusually high-paying job. :P

[@CloudyTvChannel]

finally first lol