FoldiMate, robotic laundry folding machine, FoldiMate Inc., Berkeley, California, USA

One startup has created a gadget to ease some of the burden of doing laundry. The FoldiMate robot is designed to crisply fold clothes at home like a pro.

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Foldimate is a home laundry folding robot that can fold a variety of garments like shirts, towels, pants, pillowcases with plans to add more in the future. The company has shown off a prototype, with the final device slated for availability in 2019.

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Foldimate, an automatic laundry-folding machine, aims to make life easier by doing much of the work for you. While the device made an appearance at CES last year as a non-working machine, at CES 2019 the company debuted an actual working prototype with a slimmer design. I got a chance to take it for a spin, and while it worked well, I left the experience asking myself: Is this product really necessary?

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