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 ...

“This is the year of the general purpose home robot!” “2016 is going to be for robots like 1976 was for the home computer!” The problem with statements like those is the fact that we’ve been hearing ...

A robot that folds your laundry is the kind of idea that sells itself. Just ask Syncere, a five-person startup that secured more than 1,000 preorders for its Lume robot with nothing but a simulated ...

Robots still struggle with the unpredictable ways that fabric crumples and creases. But newer approaches offer the hope of better robotic household help. peepo/Getty Images More than 60 years ago, ...

"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 ...

We can all agree agree that laundry is a dreaded and time-consuming household chore. Taking a few hours out of your day to move your clothes between the washer and dryer is inconvenient as it is, but ...

We've all faced it at one time or another: the looming pile of clean, crumpled laundry waiting hours (or days, hypothetically) to be put away. There are plenty of machines that can wash and dry ...