Can a laundry robot keep a dropped towel out of the clean stack?
A towel can be folded beautifully and still need another wash. I want a laundry robot to know the difference. Dyna's September 29 report introduces Taku, a wheeled robot that moves between laundry machines, a folding table and shelves. The company presents an uncut, hour-long autonomous demonstration. Its description of recovery is refreshingly ordinary: a dropped towel goes back in the wash; a dropped stack sends every towel in it back to the start. That makes the room more interesting than a folding table alone. The robot has to give up completed work when something happens to it. A neat stack cannot erase a trip to the floor. For a hotel trial, I'd ask the laundry lead to test a dropped towel and follow it all the way to its next wash, keeping it separate from towels ready for rooms. If the robot loses track of which pile it came from, put the uncertain towels aside for staff rather than guess. Those are checks I'd propose, not results established by the demonstration. Dyna identifies customer-site testing of this new system as its next milestone. One company-run hour does not show how often staff will have to step in over a shift. But I like seeing the dirty work included in the job. What would a laundry worker need to see before trusting the robot's clean stack?
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