yeah, i guess but is it that hard to just go and drop your dirty clothes into a hopper? you could just have a hopper that sits in the bathroom, you drop your dirties into it, and after the shower it runs off to the laundry and drops it in and basta.
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i really think this kind of automation is quite overrated though. maybe at best it has visual recognition and knows by some rfid on each item what wash conditions, and it sorts them into a series of baskets for each type and when you press go, it will wash them all corrrectly for you, then put em into the drier, and then hang them on hangers or fold them neatly into a basket and done
also, think about what kind of person even needs this. single person households. what they want everyone to be in, in a pod, in a 15 minute city.
seems like a boondoggle in the making to me.
About who needs it... there is Needing and needing. Honestly, a house with several kids is a full-time job to maintain, any help is appreciated.
yes but all those people are boiling the oceans, we can't have that
True, but in the pod you spend your life breathing your own farts. That's a non-starter for many people 🤷♂️
i'm sure there will be mandatory drugs for inhibiting that like the ones they are now starting to give to dairy cows to make sure you dirty milk drinkers get it too
If I showed it to my wife she'd laugh.
It's not the laundry we need help
with. It is the ironing.
Mountains and mountains of stacked clothes.
And that's where kids come in, not robots. Factory lines, industrialization, computerization, automation, robotics and now AI all make it convenient for humans to lose 10k years worth of skills to be lost in 100 years.
who needs to iron anymore when knit light cotton shirts and creaseproof polycotton pants are the norm.
i'm not a fan of synthetics though. but i still probably wouldn't iron even if my combat pants were plain organic untreated no synthetics hemp or cotton anyway. and you never needed to iron wool, wool is teh other fabric i like. also, nobody had irons much before about 400 years ago, because nobody had cotton, because cotton basically wasn't existing. most people in europe were wearing wool knit fabrics and nobody ironed their flax/hemp based work clothes anyway.
ironing is a historical anomaly, a bit like the liberal democratic state that rose at the same time.
I’m a huge fan of linen and that shit is built of un-iron-able wrinkles.
I don't need most of my clothes ironed either.
That doesn't mean I cat get a mother and a wife not to overburden herself with this chore easily.
when i was little, we had friends who lived up in the mountains and had one of those old washing machines with the press thing to squeeze the water out of the clothes. i don't think that this work is so unpleasant, really. and what's she gonna do other than chasing the kids around, doing her hobbies and cleaning anyway. i don't get what's so undignified about it at all.
anyway i don't think this techno dystopia has much further to run. thankfully nature is going to bring and end to it one way or another.
it's not that it's undignified, it simply
takes a lot of time and your back really hurts, wife is tired, doesn't even pay attention when trying to watch something, and has no energy for sexy time
2+3 family is a washing game unfathomable when you're single
or a couple
I expect my thoughly designed robot to do indeed al those things 😂
The camera can scan the fabric and decide best cleaning setup, and the thing can do everything it needs from picking up the clothes from the floor all the way into putring them back in the closet