Clothes Folding Robot Closes

One of the ultimate examples for home chore completion was washing, drying, folding, ironing and putting away your laundry.    Well the company that had a demo doing that has folded (closed).    Implications for classic home tasks?  We have seen some home tasks become successes, like home security,  some wild successes, like voice managing your home entertainment and information, some partial successes, like vacuuming.  What should we aim at next?

Is There a Future for Laundry-Folding Robots? in IEEE Spectrum

The company behind the Laundroid robot folds itself, but that's not the end for laundry folding robots (yet) By Evan Ackerman

The original Laundroid concept was to combine washing clothes, drying clothes, ironing clothes, and folding clothes into one single (magical?) system that was fully autonomous, but the company had to scale back to a dedicated folding machine.

The promising thing about laundry-folding robots is that they target a job that everybody does frequently, and nobody really likes. But to be successful in robotics, especially in consumer robotics, you have to be both affordable and reliable, and robots are, still, generally awful at those things. Laundroid, a robotic system that could ingest wads of laundry and somehow spit out neatly folded clothes, put on a few demos at CES over the past few years, but the Japanese company behind it just announced bankruptcy—probably because the robot didn’t work all the time, and would likely have been absurdly expensive.

Laundroid may not have been a success, but does that mean that other laundry-folding robots, most notably Foldimate, are doomed as well? Of course it doesn’t, although I’m not particularly optimistic.  .... "