cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106

In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:

frame of Avery Brooks in "Flying Cars" IBM TV commercial from 2000, no text
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[–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

Holla at me when there’s an AI clothes robot.

It's a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:

NPR timelapse gif animation from 2015 of BRETT the "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks" taking 10 minutes to fold a towel

It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!

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