On a typical day, Phillip Sharrette, a laundry worker, handles hundreds of pounds of clothes.
“The longest and most tedious part is folding the actual articles of clothing,” he said.
But on this particular morning, he was able to take a load off with a helping hand straight out of a sci-fi movie. Working alongside him was “Isaac,” a robot equipped with cameras and sensors that could sort, fold, and stack piles of clothes with surprising precision…