It was one of the key goals of the 60s. Having a home robot fold your clothes and put them away after washing. Second only to the robotic butler that would mix drinks and bring them to you with your newspaper. Its debatable about how close we are to the latter, but had not seen any consumer examples of automatic clothes folding. Except perhaps for this sighting in CES:
It’s the New Year and you’re getting laundry-folding robots, because the 1960s thought of everything by Jonathan Shieber (@jshieber) in TechCrunch
The robot laundry-folding wars are heating up.
The German appliance manufacturing giant BSH is in the early stages of partnering with the U.S. and Israeli-based laundry-folding robot designer FoldiMate on product development and manufacturing in the latest volley in the battle to bring a commercially viable laundry-folding robot to market.
As technology moves inexorably closer to an episode of the Jetsons (flying cars are already on the horizon), it’s only fitting that laundry-folding robots become the next step on the path. ... "
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