Seven Dreamers Laboratories have built an automated laundry-folding robot called the Laundroid, which﻿ was unveiled at the CEATEC trade fair in Tokyo. The Laundroid uses image recognition technology, which recognises what type of clothing it is folding. Although the prototype takes hours to fold the item, the team will shorten the folding time before it is released to the consumer market in 2017. By 2018 the team hope that the Laundroid will be deployed to nursing care facilities and by 2020, the robot will be designed so that it can be implemented in the home.
Seven Dreamers Laboratories have built an automated laundry-folding robot called the Laundroid, which﻿ was unveiled at the CEATEC trade fair in Tokyo. The Laundroid uses image recognition technology, which recognises what type of clothing it is folding. Although the prototype takes a few minutes to fold the item, the team will shorten the folding time before it is released to the consumer market in 2017. By 2018 the team hope that the Laundroid will be deployed to nursing care facilities and by 2020, the robot will be designed so that it can be implemented in the home.