Doing laundry is one of those chores that never seems to end. Sort the clothes, haul the basket, guess which settings to use, move everything to the dryer, then fold and put it all away. It takes time, it is boring, and it usually piles up right when you are tired. Dreame is working on taking most of that off your hands with a new embodied AI laundry robot and an L9 AI Washer & Dryer set, shown in Silicon Valley as part of the Shuzhi Society event.
The Dreame laundry robot is built to handle doing laundry for you. The idea is simple to understand. Instead of you sorting and moving clothes around, this robot uses cameras and sensors to see and understand items the way a person would. It can pick up clothes, tell different fabrics apart, and decide what should go into which load. Tasks that feel slow and annoying to you, such as separating darks and lights or choosing a wash program, can be handled by the robot with its own built in decision system.
Dreame calls this an embodied AI system because it is not just software on a screen. It is a physical robot that can move in your home, interact with real objects, and respond to what it sees. The goal is not to make laundry more fancy, but to move the work from you to the machine. For people who tend to leave clean clothes in a basket for days, or forget a wet load in the washer, having a robot that tracks each step and stays on task could mean less wasted time and fewer mistakes. Laundry stays a chore, but it becomes the robot’s chore, not yours.
The L9 AI Washer & Dryer set is the other part of this system. While the robot focuses on handling clothes and making choices, the L9 units are built to run the actual wash and dry cycles with less input from you. The set can read the load type, adjust water levels, set the right temperature, and choose spin and dry patterns based on what the sensors detect. Instead of standing there and guessing which cycle to pick every time, you can rely on the system to make those calls. For anyone who has ever shrunk a sweater or faded a shirt with the wrong setting, this kind of automatic control may help cut down on those problems.
Putting the robot together with the L9 set creates a more complete flow from dirty clothes to clean, ready to wear pieces. The robot can bring items to the washer, sort them by fabric or color, and start the proper program on the L9. After the wash is done, clothes can go straight to the dryer with another set of choices made by the system. This type of setup is meant for people who see laundry as a long list of small, annoying steps and would rather have a home system that handles those steps with as little talking, tapping, or checking as possible. Instead of laundry taking over a weekend afternoon, you can start a process and let the machines deal with the rest.
Dreame showed these products in Silicon Valley to mark its focus on home robots that do real daily work, not just single tricks. Laundry is one of the most common and tedious tasks in many homes, and this release suggests that the company sees it as a good target for more help from machines that can see, move, and decide. For anyone who is tired of sorting, waiting on cycles, and folding late at night, the idea of a laundry bot and AI washer dryer set offers a way to hand off a chore that few people actually enjoy doing.
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