This year's Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies saw the debut of a laundry-folding robot thanks to Japanese firm Seven Dreamers.
The tech company has teamed up with Panasonic and Daiwa House - Japan's largest home-builder, to create the "Laundroid," the New York Daily News reported.
Seven Dreamers Laboratories finds purpose in the robot, seeing how people spend hours folding laundry, yet no machine is able to do the job, despite the existence of the washing machine and dryers. The company also believes that the hours spent folding laundry could have been spent with the family.
The robot's prototype can currently fold a single T-shirt in about five to 10 minutes. When it is released for commercial sale in 2017, the company aims to shorten that time, as well as reduce the product's size, which is currently as big as a refrigerator, according to Japan Times. Laundroid also promises to be able to fold shirts, skirts, shorts and towels.
Japan has been gaining popularity in the area of robotics technology, with lots of businesses opening up that use robots to serve human customers. From a humanoid museum staff to emotion-simulating robotic companions, Japan has it. In fact, the world's first robot hotel opened in southern Nagasaki earlier this year, Telegraph reported.
