System and method of laundry singulation and flattening

A system for processing laundry with singulating and flattening, the system comprising:

• a first vision system configured to acquire at least one image of a piece of laundry and operable to identify a first corner of the piece of laundry;
• a first robotic arm comprising a first end effector, the first robotic arm operable to move the first end effector to retain the first corner of the piece of laundry and to suspend the piece of laundry from the first end effector;
• a second vision system configured to acquire at least one image of the piece of laundry suspended from the first end effector, and operable to identify a second corner of the piece of laundry from the at least one image of the piece of laundry suspended from the first end effector;
• a second robotic arm comprising a second end effector, the second robotic arm operable to move the second end effector to retain the second corner of the piece of laundry;
• a product conveyor configured to receive a pile of laundry thereon, the pile of laundry comprising the piece of laundry, the product conveyor configured to advance at least the piece of laundry in a first direction;
• a feed conveyor adjacent to and extending away from the product conveyor, the feed conveyor configured to advance in a second direction, the second direction being different from the first direction,
• wherein the first robotic arm and the second robotic arm are positioned between the product conveyor and the feed conveyor, the first and second robotic arms are operable to suspend the piece of laundry from the first and second corners in an open condition, to lower a lower end of the piece of laundry to contact the feed conveyor, the feed conveyor pulls the lower end of the piece of the laundry in the second direction to place the piece of laundry in a flattened condition on the feed conveyor,, and the first and second arms are configured to simultaneously release the first and second corners to drop the piece of laundry in the flattened condition on the feed conveyor.