医院或酒店中的洗衣房通常很热，需要工作人员在日常工作中执行无聊的任务。从人为因素的角度来看，希望使用机器人和自动化来执行洗衣房的日常工作，以及提高生产力和降低成本。在本文中，有必要了解洗衣房的操作，以确定洗衣房的哪些部分（如果不是全部的话）应该自动化。将解决技术问题，以及潜在的解决方案。 将确定并讨论降低成本的机会。本文旨在为特定服务行业提供一种可能的机器人应用。本文仅代表了机器人系统的概念性概念，目前并未反映实际的机器人/自动洗衣系统。

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