Episode 17 – Can a Robot Fold Your Laundry? Evan Wineland on Building Weave Robotics

On this episode of Out of Office, hosts Kartik Sathappan and Jack Dwyer welcomeEvan Wineland, co-founder of Weave Robotics. Evan unveils Isaac—a telescoping,wheeled home robot that folds laundry, tidies rooms, and even taps human tele-operatorswhen autonomy needs a boost. We explore why wheels beat legs (for now), how onboardcompute keeps your data private, what Evan learned while shipping Apple Intelligence,and why your own robo-housekeeper could arrive as early as late 2025.

Links
𝕏 Follow Evan: https://x.com/evan_wineland
Weave Robotics: https://weaverobotics.com
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Apple Podcasts: show link
YouTube: channel link

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Isaac highlight reel
02:45 First impressions: Roomba ≠ Isaac
06:45 What Isaac is and isn’t
13:40 Wheels > legs: safety & reliability
19:40 Why start with laundry-folding & tidying
23:40 Mapping, memory & onboarding your home
32:00 Tele-operation, trust & guardrails
39:30 Pricing, early adopters & parents vs. entropy
49:10 From Apple Intelligence to home robots
57:00 YC, quadrupeds & pivoting to Isaac
1:03:00 Shipping timeline & Weave is hiring!

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