Getting the laundry done can feel like a tedious and annoying chore. Part of the problem comes from the fact it never truly ends. We’re either washing the laundry or drying it or folding it. Sometimes ...

It’s taken many years, but one appliance manufacturer has devised a washing machine that can fold clothes. The Sustainable Maintainer prototype from Panasonic uses robotics to fold the clean clothes.

Robots are used in all sorts of industries on a wide variety of tasks. Typically, it’s because they’re far faster, more accurate, and more capable than we are. Expert humans could not compete with the ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory work welding, picking, placing, and packaging yet they’ve struggled with the ...

Folding laundry can feel like the most tedious part of doing chores. While some people find the process meditative, for many of us, folding laundry is just another thing on an already crowded to-do ...