Just had an "insane" idea:
Doing the laundry takes a ton of time, since the invention of the washing mashine people were able to invest this time into something else (their children, reading, sports,...) but the laundry still leaves us with sorting and ironing, and i think this could be changed.
Why not add a NFC-Chip to our clothing items, so that you could put a basket with dirty stuff infront of your washing machine and a robotic arm could do the sorting, and after everything is washed, it could be ironed and folded. How?
Just ad small, non visible (UV-light) orientation markers to the clothes, for example: one in every corner, front distinguisable from back, and let the robotic unit iron and fold them.
To make sure that your T-Shirt is not overstreched or crumpled, the NFC chip should contain informations about the exact distance between the markers.
What do you think about that?