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(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels
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A Berkeley PR2 robot autonomously folds a pile of five previously unseen towels, shown at 50x speed. The video accompanies a 2010 ICRA paper from Pieter Abbeel's group.
HN cites it as the benchmark for how hard and slow robot laundry folding was, in threads about household robots and AI progress.
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