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by Animats 367 days ago
Real answer: [1][2] From Chicago Dryer. It's boring, reliable, practical equipment for the huge laundries that service big hospitals and hotels. The machines look big and dumb, but there are vision systems in many of them, inspecting, separating, and finding corners. Robotic grippers grab items where necessary.

Industrial-strength dish cleaning has been demoed but does not seem to be deployed.[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTuwKu5fY0

[2] https://youtu.be/7bd900ehE9M?t=41

[3] https://nalarobotics.com/spotless.html