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World’s First Laundry-folding Robot Unveiled in Japan

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2015-10-09 18:08:53
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Households around the world are likely to breath a sigh of relief with the invention of a Japanese robot that will not only wash and dry clothes, but also sort them out, fold them up and put them away neatly in the cupboard [telegraph.co.uk].

The world’s first laundry bot – dubbed “the laundroid” - has been created by a team of Japanese technology companies in a bid to eliminate the tedium of carrying out one of the least popular household chores.

A public demonstration of the automated laundry robot washing a white shirt took place for the first time in Tokyo at the 2015 Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, an international technology trade show.

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