MindOn Claims 142 Garments per Hour in Hour-Long Mind-1 Folding Demo

MindOn has released a nearly hour-long clothes-folding demonstration for Mind-1, claiming throughput of 142 garments per hour. The October 12 upload puts a number behind the speed ambitions in the company's previous demo, with a fixed dual-arm robot working through shirts at a table.

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• MindOn claims Mind-1 can fold 142 garments per hour, equivalent to roughly one item every 25 seconds.
• The 59-minute, 22-second upload includes a folding counter that reaches 142 and footage labeled “1.0x speed” and “Fully Autonomous.”
• A person supplies each new garment, so the demonstration measures folding throughput within a human-fed workflow.

An hour of folding

The new video focuses on a dual-arm station equipped with grippers, a green work surface and a laptop displaying a clock. The robot lifts, spreads and folds shirts, while an on-screen counter tracks completed items. The footage carries MindOn's labels indicating real-time playback and autonomous operation. A person throws a new garment onto the work surface after each completed fold, however. The folding is automated, while supplying the next item remains a human task.

In its announcement on X, MindOn calls this the industry's fastest robotic clothes folding. The accompanying video description emphasizes sustained operation, throughput and reliability as requirements for useful work.

The longer format gives viewers considerably more to inspect than a brief highlights reel. The headline rate works out to approximately 25 seconds per garment, although that arithmetic alone does not establish performance across different clothing types or an entire laundry workflow.

Putting a number on the speed claim

When we covered MindOn's previous Mind-1 demonstration on September 30, the company showed parcel handling, shirt folding and a humanoid collecting laundry around a furnished room. That release emphasized human-speed operation without providing a quantified throughput figure.

This follow-up narrows the focus to one task and provides a concrete number. It also continues MindOn's approach of demonstrating robot intelligence across different hardware: the folding station here uses two arms at a table, rather than a walking humanoid.

The “industry's fastest” claim still needs a comparable test to substantiate it. Garment selection, starting conditions, acceptable fold quality and human assistance all affect the result. MindOn's announcement does not set out that comparison, but the extended footage offers a more substantial view of the folding capability behind its productivity pitch.

Progress beyond the folding station

Other developers are tackling the work around folding as well. In our recent coverage of Dyna Robotics’ Taku and Dyna-2.1, the company demonstrated an hour-long laundry workflow it describes as autonomous and uncut. Dyna says Taku moves towels through washing, drying, folding and shelving, coordinating work across machines and the folding station.

The two demonstrations highlight different areas of progress: MindOn emphasizes how quickly a robot can fold supplied garments, while Dyna addresses the handoffs needed to keep a broader laundry process moving. They are not directly comparable speed tests, but both capabilities matter for reducing the human labor required to get laundry done.