142 items an hour: Mind-1 robot folds laundry for almost an hour straight
Robotics start-up MindOn has posted an almost hour-long real-time video in which its AI system folds clothes autonomously – one item every 25 seconds on average. A human still lays out the next garment.
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Robotics company MindOn on 12 October released a video of almost an hour showing its Mind-1 system folding clothes. After 59 minutes and 22 seconds the on-screen counter reads 142 items – roughly one garment every 25 seconds on average. The footage is labelled "Fully Autonomous" and runs at real speed. MindOn describes it as the fastest robotic clothes folding in the industry.
The station consists of two robot arms with grippers at a green work surface. The AI handles the folding itself, but a person still places each new garment on the table. At the end of September MindOn had already shown Mind-1 sorting parcels and folding shirts, and a humanoid collecting laundry – back then without any throughput figures.
Trade site Humanoids Daily urges caution with comparisons: garment selection, starting conditions, the required fold quality and human assistance all affect the result. On its own, the figure says nothing about different types of clothing or a complete laundry workflow from washing to shelving.