Laundry-folding machine

[citation needed] There have been several attempts to produce commercial clothes folding machines for home use.

[3] The garments had to be manually fed into the machine from top one at a time, and after a few minutes the user could pick up ready-made clothes at the bottom.

Their goal was for FoldiMate to enter the market by the end of 2019,[4] [5] but in July 2021 it became clear that the company would cease its operations.

Laundroid was a Japanese combined washing and folding machine that aimed at being able to wash, dry, iron and fold clothes, and then transport them to an integrated wardrobe - completely autonomously, with an estimated working duration being overnight.

It was first shown at the consumer electronics exhibition show CEATEC in 2015, and was marketed as the world's first robot that could wash and fold clothes.