This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry

Isaac 0 is simply a stationary robot with 1 job: folding laundry. | Image: Weave Robotics

If you person a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hatred folding laundry, and hap to unrecorded successful the Bay Area, one-and-a-half-year-old startup Weave has the robot for you: Isaac 0.

It takes Isaac 0 astir 30-90 minutes to fold a load of laundry, Weave says. That's each it does - it's stationary and needs a regular partition outlet - and it can't tackle ample blankets, furniture sheets, oregon inside-out garments. It's not afloat autonomous either, with teleoperators on-hand to assistance with trickier folds, though Weave says show volition amended implicit time.

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.