San Francisco-based Weave Robotics has started taking orders for its laundry-folding home robot, Isaac 0. Available for Bay Area residents only. Price is $8k upfront or a $450/month subscription. Deliveries begin this month.

8k for this result?

Let me guess. It’s a bunch of Indian tele-operators staring at my wife’s lingerie. No thanks

@garrytan pay me $8k and i will come fold your laundry for you

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay someone to do the washing and folding

this is folding clothes so slow its making me just wanna fold my own clothes tbh

Guarantee this is a mechanical turk operated by some Filipino kid

“Buy this $8000 robot so you can look homeless in your wrinkled clothes because this robot STINKS”

I knew a senior guy from Dyson. They had already built laundry folding robots like 10 years ago . They measured them on all sorts of criteria from fold speed etc. it just wasn’t good enough (or good enough wasn’t commercially marketable) .

@grok how many years of laundry delivery service could you get for $8000? Assume you get laundry done once a week

Who is going to pay $450 per month to have their laundry folded? A weekly housekeeper is cheaper and does more than folding laundry.

People that can afford 8k or 450/mo will already have a maid or laundry service tho

You can pay a human to do your laundry for about the same price. Who wants this?

Random Sfbay laundry service-will pick up, wash, fold, and drop off my laundry essentially 55$ a L size basket clothes. Many more options. One trick $$robot seems to be poor bargain. 👎

I am anti-Bay Area companies now. I’ll support any tech company that that’s not from that area.

$450/month to fold laundry. That's $5,400 a year. Or you buy it for $8K and break even in 18 months. After that, every month is free. This isn't a robot story. It's the same financial decision people get wrong everywhere — subscriptions feel cheaper but ownership always wins long term.

Naw I have to take it out of the washer too??? Wow id just hire a nanny

Not to brag but am I the reason they lowered it from 10k to 8k?

Slow. Terrible result. Does nothing an untrained human couldn't do in less than half the time.

The “AI” operating the robot watching your kids while folding your clothes

It’s $8000 to buy and then pay $450 per month to use with remote human assist to fold 30 cloths an hour and can also do some simple household chores like put away toys. Concept is good, similar to the upcoming LG robots. But having remote human assist is a dealbreaker. It basically having a bunch of strangers in call centre having remote access to your home 24/7 or whenever the robot is active. That feels dangerous

So they make about 130 USD on the tele-operators a month. Nice.

Useless piece of rubbish for $8k. Will it have a remote human being spying on ppl when the bot shits itself?

$8k plus $450 a month? Pretty sure you could operate a dry cleaner with these numbers.

and it only takes it 20 minutes to fold one shirt lol. You could have a whole laundry basket done in a month

lol dude is going to take 8 hrs to fold one load of laundry and foods like crap. Looks like it takes more time to open the app and get it started than it would to simply do it your lazy ass self.

$8000 for a robot to fold my clothes at a 4 year old level? I’m good

Assuming 12 hour days every day of week 30 days a month … $450/month = $1.25 per hour Imagine a couple of these at a fluff and fold laundry. 🧺

you can build your own laundry robot right now. for 2500.00 and what's even worse about this whole thing is by the time I post this post this robot is already outdated you can build a better one. And it's gonna become less expensive every single time you build a laundry robot.

awesome. But is laundry the only thing it can do? This is useless for homes, maybe they are targeting big companies, like a clothing store, where people try on 10 things, buy 1, and throw the other 9 in a pile? If so, I think many department stores would buy 1 or 2 for every store.

8k? First time living by yourself?

I know that its not super impressive but it is still interesting tho! Good stuff

What in the juicero

When they hit FB marketplace for $500 maybe.

Socks?

Looks slow and will prob be outdated within 12 months