Folding laundry: three domestic robotics startups — Figure AI, Sunday Robotics and Weave Robotics — have presented robots tackling this task in recent months. Weave Robotics, for its part, has a public price: the Isaac 1 is sold for 7 999 dollars at purchase, and its first deliveries are announced by the end of 2026, in California.

How much does it cost?

Two entry points, and two lines that add up:

  • 7 999 dollars at purchase
  • or 449 dollars per month on a subscription plan — the commitment period is not disclosed
  • 250 dollars refundable deposit to pre-order
  • 99 dollars per month for an optional service subscription, which adds to the purchase price.

These amounts are in dollars, as reported by The Gadgeteer. What transport and taxes change upon arrival in France, we detailed in what a humanoid really costs when delivered in France.

Does it really decide for itself?

Not always, and Weave Robotics says so in black and white: the Isaac 1 operates autonomously by default, but it can receive teleoperation assistance when it needs it. In plain terms, when the machine stalls, a remote human operator can take over. This is not a detail: it is the difference between an independent machine and an assisted one.

Where does the technology stand?

Manipulating deformable objects — a garment, a sheet, anything without a fixed shape — is described in the sector as a technical ‘holy grail’. And you can feel it. Folding a single garment can still take several minutes, an unknown garment can jam the machine, and no one knows what it looks like in a real home, for lack of deployments. At this stage, these robots have been presented: demonstrations, not machines installed in people’s homes.

The crux of the matter is gesture data, the kind that does not exist on the internet. Sunday Robotics trains its models from human movements captured by 200 dollars sensor gloves, which replicate the hands of its robots. A useful caveat: this overview — the three robots, their limits, Sunday Robotics’ gloves — comes from a single Business Insider report, the only source to date.

When does it arrive?

Sunday Robotics is to install its robot Memo in private homes in autumn 2026, via a beta programme: a test with early adopter households. Weave and 1X announce their first customer deliveries by the end of the year. The first Isaac 1s should ship to California, before a wider US availability in early 2027. Nothing is said about availability outside the United States.

Two precedents invite caution, still according to Business Insider: the Japanese company behind the Laundroid, sold for 16 000 dollars, went bankrupt in 2019, and FoldiMate, which reappeared several times at CES in the late 2010s, never delivered a product.

And if you prefer to tinker?

There is another path, open source: Sourccey, from the American startup Vulcan Robotics, founded by Nick Maselli. Mechanics, electronics and software are published on GitHub, the hardware under the CERN-OHL-S-2.0 open licence, including print files (Interesting Engineering). The beast measures 1 030 mm tall for 15,88 kg, rolls on four Mecanum wheels — wheels that allow it to move in all directions, including sideways — and carries a Raspberry Pi 5, a credit-card-sized nano-computer, plus a 360° 2D LiDAR, a laser rangefinder that maps the room. It comes with four pre-trained folding micro-models (T-shirts, shorts, jeans or trousers, long-sleeved shirts) — but beware of what that means: Sourccey is piloted remotely, these models are replayed under supervision, and its manufacturer places minimal human intervention autonomy only at the start of 2027.

In other words, Sourccey is not autonomous: it is teleoperated. You pilot it with a pair of master arms — a scaled-down copy of its arms, which you manipulate by hand — or with an Oculus Quest headset. You record these demonstrations, then train a control model on top of them, the one that will replay the gesture. The in-house roadmap pushes full autonomy on basic household tasks to 2028: that is what the manufacturer says, no one has corroborated it. On the calendar front, Vulcan Robotics announces the opening of the code in August 2026 and the first deliveries in September 2026 — but no price is published to date (18 August 2026), the shop and documentation remaining marked ‘Coming Soon’ on the manufacturer’s website.