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Robots That Serve Beyond The Vacuum

Posted by timothy on from the alt-title-robots-that-don't-suck dept.

Tim Brown of Mobile Robotics writes "While everyone has been debating the abilities of new robotic vacuum cleaners and their varying price tags, Siemens has quietly announced they have developed a 'Dressman' robot that will iron your clothes! (my least favorite household chore). Rumoured to be priced at US$1700 it seems expensive for an iron. But it appears that the Roomba's best work might be that it is ushering in a new era of innovation in home products. (Note very cool picture with the article.)"

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  1. $1700 eh? by Moderator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, for $1700 this thing better do military creases.

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    1. Re:$1700 eh? by JPriest · · Score: 2, Funny

      Exactly, this thing is a hairdryer on a stick.

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    2. Re:$1700 eh? by gralem · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought the title was referring to the "Terrible Vacuum of Space"! Not these household robots pushing vacuums around and shoving irons.

    3. Re:$1700 eh? by Gabrill · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well yeah, but my boxing dummy needs a girlfriend, and I have another $1700 to blow so why not?

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  2. Gee I wonder how many by TCaM · · Score: 2, Funny

    people here are drooling over the future prospect of the Cherry 2000.

  3. Get A Wife by machocomacho · · Score: 0, Funny

    If you get a wife, you can wake to freshly ironed clothes everyday, the bad side, they talk back,need to be fed, and you have to go through a wedding, which is more than $1700, but a wife won't crash or need to be charged hmmm... decision decisions....

    1. Re:Get A Wife by Lord+Kano · · Score: 4, Funny

      f you get a wife, you can wake to freshly ironed clothes everyday, the bad side, they talk back,need to be fed, and you have to go through a wedding, which is more than $1700, but a wife won't crash or need to be charged hmmm... decision decisions....

      I think you mean "girlfriend". Let me explain...

      The shirt ironing robot won't blow you. Neither will a wife. A shirt ironing robot won't cook dinner for you. Neither will a wife.

      What you need is a girlfriend, you can get your shirt ironed, your meals cooked, and your penis sucked. Wives and shit ironing robots don't even come close.

      Yes, I am divorced.

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  4. Re:Boooring. by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah.

    A bunch of dummies inflating with enough hot air to stuff a shirt, all for all too much money.

    Sounds like Congress, doesn't it?

    Soko

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  5. how much longer.... by hellmarch · · Score: 2, Funny

    till blow-up dolls start doing the work for you? you know there has to be a company working on it somewhere. i just want to know when their IPO is. no, really.

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  6. Re:Boooring. by AtomicBomb · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a huge contribution! The problem of shirt ironing is now gone.... But, wait a minute... how about the goddamned pair of trousers.

  7. I see a new feature... by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see a new feature for RealDolls. Just make their skin a thermoelectric heating element, and...

    Shirts pressed while you wank!

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  8. Ironing for the really really lazy by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Wash clothes
    2. Get clothes out of washing machine. It's two days later so they smell all musty.
    3. Wash clothes again.
    4. Get clothes out of washing machine and put in dryer.
    5. Get clothes out of dryer. It's two days later so clothes have settled in an incredibly creased state.
    6. Wash clothes again.
    7. Dry clothes again.
    8. Get clothes out of dryer.
    9. "Hang" over the back of chair.
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    1. Re:Ironing for the really really lazy by lupin_sansei · · Score: 1, Funny

      You missed the wash cycle you need to do again when you realised you left a tissue in your pocket and now all your clothes have white bits all over them!

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  9. Also, the Robotic Toaster by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just like this one, you set a dial for how well you want your bread (shirt) toasted (ironed). You then depress a lever (press a button) and the robot then toasts (irons) your bread (shirt). It boasts an air filter so that the air due to convection doesn't contain any dust or dirt particles to contaminate your toast (shirt). It also has special insulation so that the outside doesn't get scorching hot -- only the internal elements are hot enough to heat the bread (shirt). But the Robotic Toaster is a bargain at only $795, less than half the price of the Robotic Ironing machine.

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  10. explanatory link by Quasi+Qubit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ironing

  11. Re:Boooring. by Seumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would be cheaper just to export the ironing jobs to India. :P

  12. Re:What will REALLY put robotics in the home... by howman · · Score: 2, Funny

    they call them children...

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  13. I just can't help myself with this one... by howman · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. overclock the air compressor
    2. press start
    3. watch the robot inflate like the incredible hulk
    4. duck flying buttons
    5. rinse and repete

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  14. Outsource!! by saurabhchandra · · Score: 2, Funny

    For this price we could get 2 full time employees in India ironing clothes for the whole year. So what remains is to develop a technology to teleport the clothes back and forth. Man I am patenting this :-)

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  15. Hmm... by dnight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks vaguely humanoid, no intelligence, fills up with hot air... It's not a robot, it's a politician!

  16. Watch out, this thing will be replacing managment! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the article:
    "press the start button, the whole ironing dummy fills with hot air which presses and dries the shirt. "