Many of us who work in robotics have this ‘north star’ of a robot butler which can do all the chores we don’t want to do.

I once asked a 100-year-old woman to name the greatest innovation of her lifetime and without skipping a beat she said, “The electric washing machine.” If she were alive today, she might have said, ...

The most tedious part of doing your laundry might very well be folding your clean clothes once they come out of the dryer. But now, a new machine that wants to sit next to your washer and dryer is ...

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 ...

"Imagine handing over your laundry to a friend who folds it for you" is the rather deft way in which FoldiMate describes the benefits of its robotic clothes folding machine. The firm says its device ...

Folding clothes is the worst part of doing laundry. But if you can be patient enough, a small robot might be able to do the job for you. A team of researchers from University of California Berkeley ...

You could soon fold a mountain of clean laundry without lifting a finger. A Japanese firm has combined its $16,500 fully automatic laundry folding robot with a desk lamp that responds to voice ...

Get your family together to fold clothes, and then start a game of 20 Questions, I Spy or Would You Rather. Start with something silly like “Would you rather fold 400 towels or do math homework for 10 ...

No matter how organised you are, keeping everything in your wardrobe tidy is a daily struggle - one of the biggest obstacles being neatly folding your clothes. Not a fan of folding? Allow us to point ...