Watching a robot fold towels is surprisingly fascinating. Such a simple task for a human is actually very complex for a robot. This is a significant achievement but it still takes the robot 20 to 25 minutes to fold a towel (the video is sped up by a factor of 50). So it might be a while before these robots appear in the home.

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Project was led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard working with Professor Pieter Abbeel. The video is shown at 50X speed. More details can be...