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

Daniel Payne

Oct 24, 2022

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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