In a major leap for artificial intelligence, scientists have developed a robot that folds laundry about as well as a lazy husband on a Saturday
· Oct 24, 2022 · NottheBee.com

All the other dads are gathering around this thing at the A.I. expo like, "Dude, check out this thing's moves!"

You can tell the scientists utilized real-world dad data to develop the algorithms. This move, for instance, is called the Gursky Swoop, named after Cleveland-area dad Jim Gursky, who perfected it one afternoon in August 1984 while watching the Indians get stomped by the Blue Jays in a doubleheader:

As NPR dryly put it:

Researchers have looked into it over the years — and, as it turns out, robots just aren't good at folding laundry.

Watch yourself NPR, that's a microaggression against dads everywhere!

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