Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

There is some we since many centuries ago that did not have to do laundry and fold clothes nor cook... because they have some meatware "robots" automating this tasks already.

I'd wish we could have robots helping us to produce bionanotextiles4.0 that make folding/ironing optional or obsolete, or microwaves that turn some gunk mix of element in the periodic table an turn them into a salad or a stake, rather than getting a remote controlled clanker harvesting every fart of data I produce.

You don’t want that. Because it would mean 5 rich dudes own all physical work. What happens to the rest of us when that happens? What economic system can we create that makes sense? (The current one does not make sense in that scenario. Game it out for five minutes like a chess game if you don’t believe me).

We urgently need an answer to that question before it happens. The Elon suggestion is so laughable as to be unworthy of an answer.

I’m not a roboticist but I get the core concepts and challenges (and I’ve been in the room with leaders in the space). And I know a bit about LLMs and the current state of AI systems.

the human-form robots out of China unlocking motion based on copying human motion indicate that generally useful human labor replacement robots should be on the market within five years (probably at a starting price of $40k) and really good within ten. (And market forces might drive the price to $20k in today’s dollars)

And given how long it takes to invent, validate and adopt new economic systems we need to predict the failure mode of what happens when 5 rich dudes own all work and everyone else is homeless and hungry (hint the French Revolution was a mini study on what happens when the top gets too heavy and the bottom stops having it)

Like I said, you don’t want this. Nobody wants this. Hopefully some smart billionaires figure that out and solve it soon enough to save their own skins. (Along with everyone else)

No affiliation, and not sure if it will actually do those things well but startup building for that: https://www.1x.tech/neo

A wash per day. In it, a couple of t-shirts, a shirt, a hoodie, a pair of trousers, socks, underwear. At max.

It really shouldn't take more than a handful of seconds to give a good flap and put any one of these on a hangar.

Likewise folding. A couple of seconds. Shirts don't need folding, they stay n the hangar.

I'm struggling to think why it would take longer. Are you new to clothes?

Since so many white collar jobs will be lost, the robots will be less likely since now they have to compete with every unemployed dev who is going to be willing to do the physical task just for some bread and water.