{"id":5183,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cz.ai-matters.eu\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:14:29","slug":"user-story-laundry-kysely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cz.ai-matters.eu\/en\/user-story-laundry-kysely\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Robot Sort Laundry? Inside Laundry Kysel\u00fd\u2019s Journey Towards Automated Sorting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Every day, Laundry Kysel\u00fd processes large amounts of laundry for hotels, restaurants, and other businesses. Before the washing begins, the incoming laundry needs to be sorted and placed into the appropriate containers. At the moment, this is largely a manual job. For a person, sorting a pile of laundry is something that can be handled almost instinctively. An operator can recognise different items, adjust their grip depending on the material and shape, and react immediately if several pieces arrive together or become tangled. A robot does not have that flexibility automatically. It needs to see the individual pieces, understand what it is looking at and decide how to pick each item up. And it needs to do this repeatedly, quickly and reliably. That is the challenge Laundry Kysel\u00fd wanted to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Together with CIIRC CTU and TEF AI-MATTERS, Laundry Kysel\u00fd is developing a proof-of-concept for robotic laundry sorting. The experimental setup combines a conveyor belt, camera-based vision, image processing and a robotic arm. As laundry moves along the conveyor, the camera captures the items and provides information about their position and shape. The robotic system can then use this information to identify individual pieces, grasp them, and place them in the appropriate location.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

But making the robot perform the task once is not enough. The team is testing different types of robotic grippers and looking at how quickly and reliably the system can handle different laundry items. They are also evaluating the overall robustness of the solution, which is an important consideration in an industrial environment where the system would need to operate continuously. The challenge is made even more important by where sorting sits in the overall process. It is the first stage of the laundry workflow, so its performance can influence everything that comes after it. A solution that works but is too slow or unreliable would not be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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