Note: I swear I’ve put this idea in before but I can’t seem to find it.
This is a box where you slide the washing basket into a hole at the bottom of the box, and then return at the end of a day to dry and folded washing. Inside the box, a robotic system hangs out the clothes, they dry, then folds them and puts them away.
The key thing here is the labour saving. Nobody likes folding washing. Obviously a full blown robot is going to be able to do everything, but there is a chance that this, as a lower entry point, may be good enough.
In terms of implementation, it doesn’t even need to be AI robotics. You can have cameras and gamify it so that people OS have to hang out washing and earn $ by doing successful loads.