These startups employ people to do the laundry of their customers. If they get big enough, those startups might invest into automation.
Your dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, etc. is sitting around most of the day being idle, with its utilization being really low. Industrial laundry robots don't need to be mass produced in order to be profitable, they can be hand manufactured. This allows lower capital expenditures and allows for faster iteration. And you could pay some person to watch 5 robots and correct them when they do something wrong, something similar isn't possible outside of the industrial setting. So those services will greatly help with the invention of automatic laundry robots I think.
* https://www.rinse.com/
* https://cleanly.com/
* http://www.washclubnyc.com/
These startups employ people to do the laundry of their customers. If they get big enough, those startups might invest into automation.
Your dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, etc. is sitting around most of the day being idle, with its utilization being really low. Industrial laundry robots don't need to be mass produced in order to be profitable, they can be hand manufactured. This allows lower capital expenditures and allows for faster iteration. And you could pay some person to watch 5 robots and correct them when they do something wrong, something similar isn't possible outside of the industrial setting. So those services will greatly help with the invention of automatic laundry robots I think.