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Why It's Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry

Posted by timothy on from the apparently-I-can't-do-it-either dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this selection from an article at Medium: "For a robot, doing laundry is a nightmare. A robot programmed to do laundry is faced with 14 distinct tasks, but the most washbots right now can only complete about half of them in a sequence. But to even get to that point, there are an inestimable number of ways each task can vary or go wrong—infinite doors that may or may not open."

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  1. Marriage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I married mine. She does the work quite well, hardly malfunctions but requires the occasional of hardware upgrade.

  2. These Clothes are Yelling At Me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Teaching it not to throw dirty clothes that happen to be currently occupied by a human, into the industrial washer, would be a good first step.