Weave Robotics Releases Laundry-Folding Robot
Weave Robotics is shipping its first consumer robot. Isaac 0 is a stationary, laundry-folding robot that can be installed in an afternoon and, according to the company, works from day one. Bay Area residents can order one starting this month.
The concept is simple: drop a load of laundry on a table, give it 30 to 90 minutes, and come back to folded stacks of clothes. It's not a mobile humanoid or a general-purpose household assistant. It folds clothes. The company says its first customer's family is already saving hours every week.
Weave Robotics was founded in 2024 by Kaan Dogrusoz and Evan Wineland, who met at Carnegie Mellon in 2015 and both went on to work at Apple. Wineland was a Lead AI PM who worked on Next-Gen Siri (Apple Intelligence). Dogrusoz was a manager in ML Robotics research and a staff ML researcher who shipped Double Tap on the Apple Watch. The company came out of YC's Summer 2024 batch and is backed by Pioneer Fund and Y Combinator, among other investors.
Isaac 0 represents a deliberate narrowing of scope from the company's original vision. Weave initially pitched Isaac as a robot that would autonomously tidy up messes, fold laundry, and care for your home. Isaac 0 focuses entirely on laundry folding, a more constrained but immediately useful task. The company has been transparent about the tradeoff: it's an early, first-of-its-kind product that won't be perfect all the time, and it plans to ship frequent updates to its AI models, software, and hardware.
Before going consumer, Weave deployed Isaac in a commercial setting through a partnership with Tumble, an app-powered laundry service. That gave the team real-world folding data at scale, training Isaac on the variety of garments and edge cases that come through a busy laundry operation. That commercial deployment provided the foundation for a consumer product.
Isaac 0 will be available in two purchase options: an upfront payment for priority delivery and a subscription-only plan. The company is starting with Bay Area shipments this month, with broader availability to follow.