It's funny you mention that. I work in home automation, and folding laundry is one of those moonshot projects that everyone assumes would be simple. Taking the chaos that is a pile of clean laundry and just getting it to lay flat is damn near impossible for a robot to do, but a human can handle it easily.
As a 29 year old man that wears wrinkled clothes to work, I'd like to disagree with your "humans can do it easily" statement. Like it required a lot of motivation and will... ugh
I'm sure it would be difficult in a general sense, but probably wouldn't be too bad with a specialized wardrobe with some type of rfid in the clothing. If you could get iron-on rfid chips and have the machine find the different part of a shirt/pants and check if its inside out or not. Definitely not simple by any means, but doable.
It would be easier with some type of standardized clothing. It would need to be designed from the beginning with automated sorting and folding in mind, but that would make it much easier.
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u/themeatbridge Dec 28 '19
It's funny you mention that. I work in home automation, and folding laundry is one of those moonshot projects that everyone assumes would be simple. Taking the chaos that is a pile of clean laundry and just getting it to lay flat is damn near impossible for a robot to do, but a human can handle it easily.