@AuthorJMac
Yes! It reminds me of this one group of engineering students working on a thesis project to build a machine that folded towels. This thing was massive and only folded towels 10% of the time. They initially wanted it for t-shirts and quickly gave up.
I wonder if it would be different with today's tech.
@MayInToronto
I recall that folding clothes does turn out to be a surprisingly challenging project for an autonomous machine—IIRC the issue is that the algorithms can’t grok *principles* only patterns, so e.g. if it’s trained on t-shirts it will completely fail on encountering one with long sleeves or a tank top.
@AuthorJMac