We can’t all have our own personal Rosie the Robot — like George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, and Jane, his wife — but the Laundroid will have you feeling positively Jetson-esque.
Unveiled at the most recent Consumer Electronics Show, the Laundroid is a laundry-folding robot that looks less like dear Rosie and more like a standing mirrored wardrobe with a deep bottom drawer.
Just toss your clean clothes into that drawer, and the Laundroid will use image analysis to figure out what’s in there and then sort, fold and stack your clothing on the appropriate shelf.
You get to choose how the Laundroid organizes your clothes via the companion app. The machine will need to run overnight to be of use to the average family.
As the makers of the Laundroid point out, we spend an average of 18,000 hours of our lives on laundry, and 375 days just folding clothes. But, it’ll cost you to get that precious time back: For the convenience of a Laundroid, you’ll pay a very likely inconvenient US$17,000.