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AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

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Re: AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

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Yes. I believe they shifted to putting it in your car in driveway

Pretty much my experience, ups and FedEx at least put it on my porch where it is sort of hidden. Amazon leaves it in plain sight on the driveway..... like guys no....

In my case the vast majority of amazon packages are ups, and most of the remaining are usps.

Also I live in an apartment and no porch/driveway, maybe that's why I dont lose packages :)

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Joking aside, a truly admirable goal. My god it would help everyone alive.

I don't fold my clothes, and haven't in 20 years.

Which is to say, my clothes do not get folded by anyone. No one folde them for me, nor do I fold them myself.

You don't have to fold most clothing. You can just toss it all in a basket and let it be. Most cotton wrinkles will disappear after being worn for about 20 minutes. Movement, body heat and ambient humidity removes wrinkles automatically from a lot of clothing. So, basically wrinkles from the drier usually don't last beyond most morning commutes.

And then, of course, there's not giving a single fuck about useless minutia, like... fucking wrinkled clothes.

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This fits into the category I saw a reporter describe as "Things 20 something engineers wish their mom still did for them." Similar to juicero (spelling), Amazon proposal to deliver packages inside your house....etc.

I don't think it was a fundamentally bad idea, the problems are that their product doesn't work well enough and is too expensive.

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You have to admit the washing machine is one of wonders of the modern world, yet taken for granted. Until they were invented, a wife or servant essentially devoted most of a whole weekday to washing clothes. A washing machine and dryer cuts this to a couple hours a week. Clever people seek to cut this time even further.

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At last modern fabrics don't require ironing anymore. You can put away a dryer's worth of clothes in less time than it takes to watch a quarter of an episode of Game of Thrones. It's really not that hard (for a human)

Industrial scale though ... but can AI really be cheaper than a skilled minimum wage professional? You know someone who has folded thousands of t-shirts and really gotten it down to an impressive speed.

Like this guy for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzivmWS6qak He folds a button-down shirt in 30 seconds. That's 120 shirts an hour ...

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Joking aside, a truly admirable goal. My god it would help everyone alive.

I don't fold my clothes, and haven't in 20 years. Which is to say, my clothes do not get folded by anyone. No one folde them for me, nor do I fold them myself. You don't have to fold most clothing. You can just toss it all in a basket and let it be. Most cotton wrinkles will disappear after being worn for about 20 minutes. Movement, body heat and ambient humidity removes wrinkles automatically from a lot of clothing.…

Wearing ironed clothes makes me feel much better compared to wearing wrinkled clothes. Sometimes the difference could be as huge as between a good day and bad day. So maybe luxury but not useless.

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I dread laundry. Its one of signs you are still alive and soiling clothes. Some males never do laundry their entire lives. Their mothers do it until they marry. Then their wives and daughters.

I hope we soon see a world where laundry isn’t assumed to be gendered work. Nobody loves laundry but that’s why I wouldn’t want my partner to have to do it all...

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> Amazon proposal to deliver packages inside your house Wasn't this just to prevent assholes from stealing packages from your yard/door/...?

Yes. I believe they shifted to putting it in your car in driveway

> I believe they shifted to putting it in your car in driveway

Huh? How is that supposed to help?

People aren't less likely to steal a package out of your car than out of your driveway.

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