Laundry-folding robot takes on time-consuming chore
Published on Oct 6, 2016
A laundry-folding bot called "Laundroid" is unveiled at Japan's Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies and is said to recognize various articles of clothing and fold them accordingly. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Laundroid lets users drop in a load of laundry, and uses cameras, artificial intelligence, and multiple robot arms to determine the best way to fold clothes. It takes about 5-10 minutes to fold one t-shirt and it costs $16,000, so you’d better have a lot of both time and money.