A clothes-folding robot that has been in development for more than a decade is about to go on sale.
Laundroid will initially be targeted at hospitals and nursing homes in Japan, but its maker aims to sell a tweaked version to families worldwide before the end of the decade.
Chris Foxx caught up with the project’s founder at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
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