The project was presented this week at the annual project day of the Faculty of Computer Science. In this framework, student projects developed within the framework of the laboratory for systems and software development at the faculty were presented
Three Technion students developed the iFold Project – A robot that folds laundry. The robot was developed by Sapir Cohen, Noa Paz and Hila Levabi as part of the Arduino and IOT course at the Faculty of Computer Science. The course is led by Itai Devran, the practitioners: Boris Van Sussin and Marina Minkin, and Dr. Nir Levy is director of academic relations at Microsoft.
The project was presented this week at the annual project day of the Faculty of Computer Science. In this framework, student projects developed within the framework of the laboratory for systems and software development at the faculty were presented.
"The algorithms we developed allow the user to choose between folding different clothes and different folding methods and to receive mobile reminders according to the user's wishes," explained Noa Paz.
The robot is built from three arms, three motors and plastic surfaces that perform the folding. The user is required to define the type of clothing in the application (pants, shirt, small towel), lay it out on the device and press a button. The three female students testify that the most difficult part of developing the system was the mechanical development. "We have a lot of experience with the software, but dealing with the mechanical challenges was complicated and required a lot of experiments and improvements from us."
The course for programming systems in the Arduino environment is held in collaboration with Microsoft R&D, and allows students to use modern technologies and software during their studies, including smartphones and tablets to run applications during development. As part of the course, designed to challenge the students in independent product building projects, the students designed smart systems that combine hardware and software with the help of Arduino-based controllers.
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I already miss the air-conditioned robot level:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/robodrink-3006152
If this is a level in the faculty's project lab, then why are they giving it publicity?
In high schools, much more advanced and sophisticated projects are carried out.
Building the website / phone app was the main work, calling it a laundry folding robot is just a joke.
A joke project. And it is very sad that a site of such a level as "Hidan" even bothers to bring to mind the aforementioned final project.
If it's for reasons of female empowerment in high-tech, then forgive me, this is about disrespecting the many high-quality women in high-tech, because this project does not respect any Technion graduate at all, especially not computer science - regardless of the gender of the graduate.
Not impressive.
I expect more of a thorough adult let alone an academic.
Even the app on the iPad is not impressive
I think it was a prank that worked, and everyone ate up the story. There is no way this is what they are building at the Technion.
To understand the difference between this project and what is done in vocational high schools in Israel, we have only to look at the high schools of the "Amal" chain and what their students manage to do:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4907623,00.html
To be sad - I studied at Ort many decades ago and we did a much more sophisticated automation. Of course without computers but contactors (RELAYS). That's why I wrote a folk level.
If the robot could independently take the clothes out of the laundry basket and fold them then it would be worth something.
Sorry, not very impressive.
I remember the Technion as little more than the Ort high school in the neighborhood near where you live
Sorry, this is a public school level.
Every laundromat in the US that washes shirts has a more sophisticated device that is used to fold shirts with sleeves.
They forgot the essential part where the system takes a selfie with the folded shirt and uploads it to Instagram. This neglect to complete the task is a failure of the highest order among the generation born with a smartphone in hand.
With all due respect to the students, it is hard to be impressed by this simple machine.
Sorry I'm not enthusiastic, it looks totally awesome
Unusually amateurish, shame that it's a final project...
This plastic device has been on the market for years, connect 3 motors to an Arduino together with a PC and write a simple, speechless program
come on