Have problems with that pile of laundry accumulating in the corner of the room? Just can’t seem to find the time in the day to stop being an apathetic, lazy slob? Like most problems created from apathy, this will be solved by robots. At least, in the future.
As an ex-GAP employee, I know that folding laundry is half of the battle. The other is talking to people. So, meet Foldy, your friendly neighborhood folding robot. Named by drunk people watching Wall-E, Foldy is the next step, or perhaps the only step in laundry folding technology. A PC is used to input commands, which is then undertaken by the robot, with a series of cameras attached to the ceiling to make sure he is undergoing the process correctly. So that’s three technological attachments to fold laundry. Still making it infinitely easier to do it yourself, or bankroll people who have just come into the country. Apparently, Foldy folds faster than a GAP employee. Granted, I don’t know any university study that would just hang around in a GAP to obtain data about their employees, but good for them. It was designed by Professor Masahiko and a team at Keio University, and is still just as cute as any robot imagined by Pixar.
I really want to get one, and have him fight a Roomba.
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