On: AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

[glenneroo]

Slightly tangential but on the other hand, washing clothes pollutes the oceans with plastic[0][1] i.e. washing more frequently causes more pollution.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/27/washing-clot...

[1]: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/19/17800654/clothes-pla...

[Retric → glenneroo]

“Syntactic fibers” is a major limitation on that research.

100% cotton/silk etc clothes don’t have that issue.

[glenneroo → Retric]

True, but if you've shopped for clothes in the US/Europe then you surely noticed that most clothing contains some percentage of synthetic fibers.