The future of laundry automation is here in Chicago. The goal of automation is to streamline the flatwork finishing process to continually increase productivity and labor-savings, while improving quality and efficiency. Chicago has worked toward this by developing new equipment such as the Genesis Automatic Towel Machine (ATM) series, a first of its kind product in the laundry industry. Genesis combines smart A.I. learning, vision and robotics technology to create a hands-free towel machine that autonomously picks towels of multiple sizes and feeds them directly into a sorting towel folder, such as Air Chicago Quattro.

Genesis ATM may look straightforward ...