You guys fold laundry?
Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
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Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#302There you go, all your privacy gone right in the hands of these companies!
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single one of these robot plays are going to try pivot to having someone do you laundry remotely for a dollar a day. If they ever get the tech down (I doubt it), they will then try move to broader labour replacement. This is why all the robots need to be humanoid.
Curious why you feel they won’t get the tech down? I think these products are all data plays right now.
Manipulating soft bodies is exceptionally difficult to do with robotics.
moving a soft object from a to b is doable, folding/separating/sorting at any kind of speed is very much an area of active research.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#304> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion. Suspiciously absent: a rough idea of what percentage of tasks need the assistance.
I watched the promo video somewhere and when folding the blanket, the video cuts and edits were very suspicious. I doubt it can fold a blanket at all.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#305> Handles loaded hampers What does it mean "handles"? It doesn't say it puts on a wash, but that's what I'd want. I can only assume they're vague because it doesn't do anything useful. > Makes beds A robot the height of a child makes a double bed with sheet, duvet, and pillows? I highly doubt it could reach. > Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed…
>What sort of insurance do they have for that person breaking something in your home? Probably just make the user accept a license agreement saying they accept the risk? I suspect most people would accept the risk something might get broken if it means they no longer need to clean their house.
What if it breaks something and you still need to clean your house? This thing does not look like it's going to much of anything successfully.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious why you feel they won’t get the tech down? I think these products are all data plays right now.
Manipulating soft bodies is exceptionally difficult to do with robotics. moving a soft object from a to b is doable, folding/separating/sorting at any kind of speed is very much an area of active research.
Totally agree but the idea is this gives you a teleoperation environment that is truly on policy and not some artificial lab. The idea is that these robots, like those Amazon stores, are predominantly just controlled by actual humans.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Citation needed. Here is one for the contrary (just a book review. The citation is the book). https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/06/we-need-to-tax-billiona...
That strongly supports my point. What do you think $250 billion a year worldwide pays for? That's $30 per person per year .
It's $250 billion less that goes to the ultrarich, so that they can't purchase another $250 billion of assets.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#308So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place. What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision…
The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah.
The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher.
Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range.
But it's essentially just a sprinkler.
Ain't no one going to to pay the cost of a new BMW for a dishwasher.
Same thing here for the laundro-bots. Their competition isn't against the time saved for a person to do it themselves. The competition is a maid that does your whole house for $70.
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#310It's inevitable that someone will build a good robot to do these mundane chores. But is that a good thing? I vacuum every night and during that I get some great thinking done. If I had a robot vacuum, I can said with certainty I would make good use of that time.