Robotic Laundry Folding Machine is the Answer to Our Prayers

A California-based start-up has created the FoldiMate, a robotic laundry-folding machine tailor-made for people who just hate foldin’. Without mentioning the exact price, the website has opened pre-order registrations with a cost between $700 and $850, NY Daily News reported.

Washing, drying and folding – the bain of our existence – might become less of a chore, thanks to a contraption that automates that tedious third step.

FoldiMate is not the first laundry-folding robot to be rolled out. It can fold a piece of clothing in ten seconds. It’s meant to sit on top of the washer or dryer and you can attach as many as 20 items to the front of it at a time using integrated clips.

Once clothes are dry, they are clipped into FoldiMate’s patented Easy Clipping loading system. Shipments are expected to begin in 2018. The steaming add-on will start at around $200 and (optional) perfume/softening capsules will retail for ~$15-$40 each. Robot FoldiMate is able for pre-order, so far it’s slated for a 2018 release.

Since being founded in 2012 (and running a flopped Kickstarter campaign that only raised $11K of their requested $500K), FoldiMate has raised $500,000 in seed funding.

The team behind FoldiMate has decades of experiences in robotics, product management and technology, industrial design and fabrication, and even mechatronics.

Although innovative and space-friendly, FoldiMate isn’t the only autonomous laundry machine to be hitting the market. It will fold shirts, pillowcases, trousers and other similarly sized items.

Don’t worry about how long it will take.