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Market2026-08-09

Business Insider reported on 9 August 2026 that several well-funded home robotics startups — Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, Weave Robotics and 1X — have converged on laundry folding as their first consumer task, citing it as a bounded, low-risk demonstration of dexterous manipulation of deformable objects. Weave's Isaac 1 sells for $8,000 upfront or $449 a month; Sunday plans a home beta program this fall, while Weave and 1X expect first customer deliveries later this year. Sunday trains its models using $200 sensor-equipped gloves that mirror its robots' hands and is extending to vacuuming, toy organizing, zippers and coffee; 1X markets NEO as a housekeeper. Researchers including Ayanna Howard, Matei Ciocarlie and Jason Corso noted single items can still take minutes and that a general-purpose home robot remains years away, recalling Laundroid's 2019 bankruptcy and FoldiMate's failure to ship.

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