> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion.<p>Suspiciously absent: a rough idea of what percentage of tasks need the assistance.
I find it very suspicious that the laundry folding segment of the video has awkward cuts of the interesting parts. Makes me question if it is actually capable of doing that
There are 2 complete folds in the Isaac 0 video around 0:40, but speeded up: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhImSR8GuCE" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhImSR8GuCE</a><p>The about page claims 1000+ lbs of laundry folded every week.
I would be happy if it could put my clothes on hangers without teleoperation.
So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place.<p>What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision on every frame. Very curious about the embodied AI architecture that this is going to use, and how it can get cheap enough that it's not going to use $500/month in electricity every month.
8k is cheap if laundry is fully offloaded but will a regular consumer spend 8k on a device that is not proven? I guess there is a subset of consumers that this automatically targets/caters to.
Tesla operates vehicles for $100/month. I’m guessing whatever cloud ai this thing needs is less complicated and less money.
Seems to suffer from the dalek problem.<p>My laundry is upstairs and my washer is downstairs.<p>Also doesn’t seem to be able to start washer/dryer and transfer loads.
The product specs are pretty light on details. Weight? Speed? Capabilities?
> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion.<p>Does that mean some random human looking at my dirty laundry in the middle of my home, the most intimate place in existence for me? No thank you.
Understandable reaction. That being said, thousands of people already pay for the privilege of inviting an actual human into their home every week to clean. For those people, that doesn’t seem likely to be a hurdle.<p>Personally, I’d probably be willing to stomach a teleoperator but what I would not be comfortable with is the company retaining images, video, and other telemetry from my condo on their servers for who knows how long.
When comes to lower part it’s always bipedal (hard to balance) or wheels (low capabilities).
Why no one makes 4-6 legs, insect like?
That seems like an easier problem to solve while gives much better mobility.
I wonder how much of it is training data. We can very easily get training data of 'human tasks' because humans can wear tracking suits, and those suits track bipedal movement. Anything we train off that isn't bipedal (ie dogs) don't do human tasks, don't hold anything, so a different set of requirements.
Going from 2 to 4 legs doubles the amount of actuators required and substantially increases power consumption since you must move more mass, going to 6 compounds the problem further. In a future where we have more dense power storage and better (and cheaper!) motors, you probably will see robots with more legs. But for now, the most efficient solutions are bipedal.<p>Especially because this thing is already $8k, I imagine they have already done some substantial price optimization.
They make robot dogs, e.g. famously Boston Dynamics but many others as well. And 6 is probably overkill for price/performance increase incremental to 4. Wheels are still much more practical and you can use them as feet in hybrid designs to be able to step over obstacles but still more agile than comparable bi/quadrupeds
Entomophobia/arachnophobia is far too common for giant bug-like robots in folks' bedrooms.
So you will have low-paid Africans from 3rd world countries tele-operating a robots in rich peoples houses doing chores?
Better than local servants doing chores.
And watching you have sex -- that's their weekly bonus.
Exactly. With special safeguards to prevent them from "exfiltrating" any of your property or information with the help of accomplices on the ground, online services, or other clever hacks.
Yes, that's the path we're on. It may start with poor eastern Europeans, then gradually move to Africans who tele-operate on eastern European homes.
Are these the same guys that were trashing airbnbs testing the robots?
No, that was The Bot Company [1][2].<p>[1] <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testing-robots-airbnbs-trashing-lawsuit-claims/" rel="nofollow">https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testin...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.bot.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bot.co/</a>
I'll buy a robot that can put fitted sheets and fold every piece of laundry no matter how contorted/inside-out it is. Till then, they're just gimmicks. Also, it should have legs.
This is like a demo iPhone 1 where Optimis will be the iPhone 17 Pro
I'd love to own one of these!<p>It could fold my laundry while I'm busy working from home as a teleoperator for Weave Robots.
Feels like they cloned the vacuum cleaner Roborock Saros Z70, and attached the arms to a pole instead of the base.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY</a><p>Especially the arm clamp is the same shape, the actions are practically the same (take object and put in basket, teleoperation with live camera).<p>The type of thing you have lot of fun for 5 minutes.<p>Cheaper Unitree robots that starts at 4,900 USD are impressive in comparison.<p><pre><code> Weave says the robot blends autonomy with teleoperation (remote assistance by a Weave specialist) to guarantee that we complete every fold
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Quite ridiculous. For 449 USD / month couldn't you just hire someone to clean your whole place and even sort your clothes, empty the trash, etc ?
You can, but who are you to stop people that don't trust a human to not steal their shit so would rather have a remote controlled robot do it though?
> a Weave specialist<p>Lol. Folding engineer.
RadioShack where are you, you should be selling these.
I wonder how this thing would hold up against a dog
The first thing that jumped out at me is its form factor. It is easier to engineer (cheaper) and less threatening than a bipedal robot. The drawback, of course, is that it is less mobile.
Yeah, I would consider getting one for my 94 year old grandmother, but there are 2 steps between her bedroom and the laundry room, and this can't cut it.
I mean its a start to getting something to market? It just looks way behind the chinese models that are being delivered.
No legs? Call it what it is: Dalek
Product page: <a href="https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1</a>
Thanks! we've made that the main link and put the submitted link in the toptext.
Thanks! This should be the link, or to their announcement.<p>The article page on runtimewire is slop with a lot of distracting design elements and even a “WHY IT MATTERS” title, which is just cringe.
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Once again, the text is riddled with LLM'isms. Is this the new norm nowadays? Looking at OP's submission history, it's evident that they are utilizing HN for SEO farming.<p>A much more valuable discussion would be centered around the company's own website, which contains the same information, and doesn't require an LLM mediator: <a href="https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1</a>
Teleoperation looks like a great business opportunity. Hire voyeurs for cheap and sell to exhibitionists.
Everything about this product looks terrible.<p>Must operate on a perfectly flat surface. My roomba could probably handle a larger carpet curb than that top-heavy thing.<p>Head and eyes appear to be at human crotch level for some reason... gross.<p>What a waste of engineering talent.
Surrogate slavery is going to be a large business one day.<p>If you are telling me that one day I'll have a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave.<p>Why wouldn't i pay 50000 for that, besides the obvious "you are a creep" like why do I care when it's coming and market forces are going to make it an indistinguishable substitute human a la Joi from blade runner?
Because your sex slave uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion?
Someone or thing to help with chores would be great.<p>But abject exploitation? Sex slave, even? I should hope we can find a little decency within ourselves..
<a href="https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robosexuality" rel="nofollow">https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robosexuality</a><p>Could it become true ?<p>Well, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism</a> we live in the future already
A robot babysitter sounds like a suggestion made by somebody who doesn't have kids.
> a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave.<p>Used to be called "a wife", before emancipation.<p>Seriously though, the future is made of human beings more and more isolated from each other because technology will give us all that we used to get from other people, with none of the annoyances. Each the king or queen of their solipsistic kingdom.
2027 will be the year of the robots.<p>I also saw Tesla is ramping up to make millions of Optimus robots. And Amazon bought Fauna robotics which I predict we will start seeing "last 100 ft" deliveries soon. Amazon's Rivian packmobile will pull up to a block and 5 Fauna robots (they are short) will jump out and start delivering packages to the neighborhood.<p>The robots are coming...