Arms in question: [1]<p>TIL Dynamixel servos can be had for less than $ALL_YOUR_BUDGET!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/jess-moss/koch-v1-1">https://github.com/jess-moss/koch-v1-1</a>
Very cool, many of us here, I'm sure have dreamt of this sort of thing whenever we fold clothes, but you've made it a reality.<p>Hope to see rapid progress on this!
This imitates a human who does a mediocre job of folding shirts. This shirt will end up wrinkled.<p>I’d be much more interested to see either:<p>- a robot trained on experienced clothing retail sales associates (can fold a shirt like this in a single movement), or<p>- a non-human folding technique optimized for the robot arms (having multiple fingers and more arm+hand mobility is part of what makes the human single-move fold possible).<p>Source: Have worked at Gap, Nordstrom, others…
They should first have researched how to quickly fold a t-shirt. It can be done in two seconds with little handling and some practise. I guess even by using only two robot arms. See for example <a href="https://youtu.be/uz6rjbw0ZA0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/uz6rjbw0ZA0</a>
Put it on wheels. Give it a chute for dirty clothes.<p>I'd happily pay 10x this ($3,000) to never do laundry again if it meant nicely folded clothes would always await me in my closet.