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Please add "empty pants pockets" to that list of a complete laundry cycle. Otherwise the only thing PR2 is close to is ruining all my clothes. :-) Lip balm, pens, crayons, etc.

And while we're at it, it also needs to treat any stains, otherwise you may make them worse. :-)

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In my household (with my wife and I doing the laundry), items in pockets are considered to be unacceptable input for the laundry chute, with undefined behavior. I imagine that many other households are similar. It'd be a bit unfair to hold the robots to a higher standard.

Similar for stains: They need to be treated before they go into the normal laundry cycle, and are often given special treatment for the entire process.

Garbage in, garbage out, eh? :-) Well then the robot needs to stop picking up clothes off the floor. ;-)

As a first pass, I think we can require humans to still do some work - it's not like the robot is going to take my laundry basket from the room...

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