{"id":18248,"date":"2015-10-08T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/meet-the-laundry-folding-washing-machine-of-our-lazy-ass-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:33:04","slug":"meet-the-laundry-folding-washing-machine-of-our-lazy-ass-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/meet-the-laundry-folding-washing-machine-of-our-lazy-ass-future","title":{"rendered":"Meet the laundry-folding washing machine of our lazy-ass future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzZSpiqvb1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Socks are the hardest. For a future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/01\/05\/lg-baby-washing-machine\/\">washing machine<\/a> that washes, dries and then folds the results, it\u2019s one of the small barriers that remains in that latter stage. But as a research project that started back in 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/laundroid.sevendreamers.com\/#\">Laundroid<\/a> is finally getting there. Next year, the collaboration between housing firm Daiwa House, electronics company Panasonic and Seven Dreamers will start offering preorders, the year after that \u2018beta\u2019 machines, then folding machines for big institutions, with event full retail planned the year after that \u2014 we\u2019ll be in 2019 by then. (That said, the all-in-one model is still at the in-development stage). There\u2019s no price and the presentation we saw added in a bunch of mosaic filtering on top as the shirt gradually got folded so you couldn\u2019t see how the thing <em>actually<\/em> works. But that\u2019s okay. We can wait. It\u2019s not going to stop us waiting our chore-dodging dreams to come true.<\/p>\n<p>While the video teaser above gives you pretty much <em>nothing<\/em> of substance, at the on-stage demonstration, we saw a just-washed tee take a matter of minutes for the internal tech to sort, identify and fold. The tech involved is separated into two very separate parts: image analysis and robotics. With a hypothetical bundle of clothes, each item demands different folding (we\u2019re going to say) techniques, so the machine needs to figure what that soft lump of cloth is, then prime it for folding. The presentation here at CEATEC elaborated (if only lightly) on the stages it\u2019s taken to get to here: it\u2019s been a pretty long journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/07\/laundry-folding-washing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socks are the hardest. For a future washing machine that washes, dries and then folds the results, it\u2019s one of the small barriers that remains in that latter stage. But as a research project that started back in 2008, Laundroid is finally getting there. Next year, the collaboration between housing firm Daiwa House, electronics company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63971,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18248\/revisions\/63971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}