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A laundry-folding machine or laundry-folding robot is a machine or domestic robot which folds apparel such that they can be stored compactly and orderlyA laundry folding machine can be a part of or integrated with a washing machine, clothes dryer, ironing machine and/or wardrobe. Some operate these processes autonomously, while others require varying degrees of manual intervention.
For industrial use, there are several types of laundry folding machines in different sizes and varieties, of which some are very specialized for certain types of clothing, or very large to be able to fold large textiles such as bedding. There have been several attempts to produce commercial clothes folding machines for home use.
The Global Laundry Folding Robots Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
LRN The fastest ever laundry-folding robot Garment handling such as folding and packing are common tasks in textile manufacturing and logistics, industrial and household laundry, healthcare, and hospitality, where speed and efficiency are key factors.
Humans use their senses of sight and touch to grab a glass or pick up a piece of cloth. It is so routine that little thought goes into it. For robots, however, these tasks are extremely difficult. The amount of data gathered through touch is hard to quantify and the sense has been hard to simulate in robotics — until recently.
SpeedFolding takes a different approach. First, a novel neural network called BiManual Manipulation Network studied 4,300 human and machine-assisted actions in order to learn how to smooth and fold garments from a random configuration.
That process can involve a number of defined movements including flinging, dragging, moving and “pick-and-place“. To fold laundry, robots need a sensor to mimic the way a human’s fingers can feel the top layer of a towel or shirt and grasp the layers beneath it.
Researchers could teach a robot to feel the top layer of cloth and grasp it, but without the robot sensing the other layers of cloth, the robot would only ever grab the top layer and never successfully fold the cloth.
Previous attempts at getting robots to fold these items mainly focused on single-arm manipulation or complex iterative algorithms that require a large number of interactions and therefore take longer to complete.
