Why do robots always fold T-shirts in videos?

Because it's an ideal task for today's technologies: looks complex but yields a high success rate.

Engineer Benji Holson (ex-Google X) explains that the ability to fold laundry creates the illusion of a 'universal robot', though in reality we are far from that 🧠

To check real capabilities, Holson proposed the idea of an 'Olympics' for humanoids. The Physical Intelligence team managed to take 'gold' in most disciplines 🏅

Problems arose not because of AI, but because of hardware — for example, a wide gripper can't fit into a sleeve or peel an orange. Meanwhile, robots trained on just a few hours of data, and progress is already noticeable.