[rob74]

Sure, there are already robot vacuum cleaners, but I somehow fail to imagine how (a) specialized robot(s) that can e.g. sort your used laundry, wash it, dry it, iron it (if necessary), fold it and put it back into the cupboard would look like?

[fragmede]

If we're designing magic future devices, why are they separate machines? It wouldn't take a robot, I'd just dump my dirty clothes in one end of the machine, and the other end of the machine is my dresser drawers. We can't even handle smushing the washing machine and dryer into one machine, and that technology exists today.

And the other thing is, why is the washing machine itself not seen as a specialized robot? Like if you're designing a machine to machine machines, doesn't it make sense to revisit the whole thing?

[po1nt]

Well we got well past washing it by hand in a river. I don't think folding it and storing it in a robotic friendly container until requested would be such a demanding task with today's tech.