Researchers at UC Berkeley have taught a robot to roam around the office and fold towels too. Check out the video and see the Robot at work. Now if they could teach him how to do beds and clothing I think they would have an awesome product for the consumer market.This might be a great item to have in retail stores. I can remember many times walking into a men's department seeing sweaters and shirts all over the place. Imagine having a robot like this that drives around the store, then when it sees no one there, rolls over and folds things back up and puts them in their proper place.
The store could set up the shelf's with RFID tags and make the clothing have matching tags on the price tag so it knows where to place things. Plus, you can have an inventory counter there too, so as he rolls around he can take a live merchandise count of what is in stock and what needs to be re-ordered.
Then, in the store you could have various Wi-Fi points where these machines can also send and receive updates and information. This could really make stores a lot more efficient and also have sales people working the floor, instead of spending time folding clothing over and over again. It frees them up to look for new customers and better serve the consumer.
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