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A machine that folds your laundry is finally here

Meet Laundroid - the robot which can fold your laundry

Is this the greatest technological advance since the printing press? Possibly.

Robots can do amazing things, but many would be scuppered by the simplest of tasks – it’s a common complaint that they can’t even fold laundry.

Well, not any more. In the video above, LJ Rich of BBC Click reports on Laundroid, a Japanese clothes-folding machine created by Seven Dreamers, in partnership with Panasonic and Daiwa House.

Ok, folding takes four minutes per garment, but hey, this is progress.

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