Steven Gong and his University of Waterloo engineering classmates needed a capstone that actually finished a chore companies have chased for years. Folding laundry looks simple until cloth bunches, sleeves hide, and every shirt arrives in a different mess. Their answer was a pair of follower arms that copied two leader arms driven by human [...]
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A group of students from the University of Waterloo created a system capable of taking a t-shirt from the basket, stretching it, bending it and stacking it autonomously. Behind a seemingly simple gesture there are hours of demonstrations, billions of parameters and even a broken robotic arm.