2. In the US it would cost at least $400/yr per person for a pickup/drop off laundry service. Foldimate sells for $850, and can presumably service an entire household. If it was more capable (just put clean clothes in a hopper, or connects directly to a dryer) it would be significantly more economic then human labor.
I'm not sure how laundry services currently work. Assuming there is a robot like Foldimate maybe laundry services will use them and maybe laundry services will be unable to compete with coin-operated Foldimates located at self-service laundry facilities.
I assume that the people at those laundry services would be so practised at folding clothes that it would take longer for them to feed it into the machine then to just fold the clothes themselves.
