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$400,000 Towel Folding Robot for Sale!

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2010-09-27 05:59 in Robotics
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727780.101-towelfolding-robot-now-on-general-sale.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Heck, I'll fold your towels for two years for a cool $300K.

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-09-16 12:04
    Who folds towels? That's what the bed in the guest room is for: as a place to dump clean laundry, so you can pick through the pile whenever you need something.

    -Phil
  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2010-09-16 13:09
    but it can also deliver beer...
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-09-16 13:11
    erco wrote: »
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727780.101-towelfolding-robot-now-on-general-sale.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
    Heck, I'll fold your towels for two years for a cool $300K.
    sounds like they lost their mind and know a good scam, the real maid will fold towels for a few cents.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2010-09-16 13:13
    In my $300K quote for folding towels, I'll also bring you a beer every time I get up & get one for myself.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-09-16 13:23
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Who folds towels? That's what the bed in the guest room is for: as a place to dump clean laundry, so you can pick through the pile whenever you need something. -Phil
    Hi Phil, your method is not scientific enough. First, you must dry the towels. So turn the towels to fit the rack. When dry, they are already folded and you just stick them in the drawer. Neat and logical. I learned that from Mr. Spock on Star Trek. hehe...

    Humanoido
  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2010-09-16 14:20
    Humanoido wrote: »
    sounds like they lost their mind and know a good scam, the real maid will fold towels for a few cents.

    But the robot will still let you run for public office or be appointed to a post, while the maid will create nothing but questions and problems...
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-09-17 04:42
    John R. wrote: »
    But the robot will still let you run for public office or be appointed to a post, while the maid will create nothing but questions and problems...
    Hi John, indeed the robot will do nothing else. You are free to run for office and become President. But... are you willing to pay $400,000.00 for that luxury of not having someone nag you day after day, night after night, raising your blood pressure, increasing stress and tension, and keeping you on your toes and providing the warmth of real companionship...? ;)

    Here's a plan. Invest the money in Parallax Company. $400,000.00 will buy a lot of Propeller chips which will build a lot of robots or will make a really cool super computing micro controller machine with 52,700 Propeller chips that can control most of the world that needs controlling. Plus, as a side benefit, they can swarm around the house and do more than just fold towels (like pick up your room).

    Humanoido
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-09-17 04:52
    erco wrote: »
    In my $300K quote for folding towels, I'll also bring you a beer every time I get up & get one for myself.
    ...Erco, skip the beer & and throw in a working car, laboratory equipped with Parallax parts, chocolate, all the Propeller chips needed, living quarters for the top genius mad scientist brains from this Forum (plus their plane tickets) and a diet coke!

    Humanoido
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2010-09-26 08:51
    @Humanoido: It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one pumping mass quantities of Diet Coke thru my system. When they finally discover what copious amounts of Nutrasweet really does to a human body, I'm a dead man.

    Unless of course, wheat beer negates the effects of Nutrasweet...
  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2010-09-26 20:33
    Ya... Diet Coke... I think you can see a can someplace in the background of most candid pictures of me. (Attached is a picture from a year ago as I was assembling my first hexapod) The problem is that you don't get any respect ordering a Diet Coke, what other soda has a dress on the side of the can? Maybe they could make a "tough" looking Diet Coke? You know paint it black and give it a tough name, one that says "I take ZERO gruff!" :)
    Robot and Diet Coke.jpg
    900 x 1200 - 141K
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-09-27 05:59
    vanmunch wrote: »
    Ya... Diet Coke... I think you can see a can someplace in the background of most candid pictures of me. (Attached is a picture from a year ago as I was assembling my first hexapod) The problem is that you don't get any respect ordering a Diet Coke, what other soda has a dress on the side of the can? Maybe they could make a "tough" looking Diet Coke? You know paint it black and give it a tough name, one that says "I take ZERO gruff!" :)
    My God! Are we all diet coke junkies? LOL.. Actually, you apparently contacted the Cola company. Over here, we have a black can that goes by the name of of Diet Coke Zero. Just what you requested!!! BTW, very nice looking hexapod!
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