We are truly living in wonderful times-- if one is to believe Tokyo-based Seven Dreamers, folding the laundry will soon be a thing of the past with Laundroid, the laundry-folding robot. Yes, really.
While it bears an ominous resemblance to HAL 9000, the malevolent artificial intelligence from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Laundroid's only purpose is to perform one of the more annoying household tasks. As seen in a CES 2016 demonstration, one simply needs to dump freshly-washed laundry in a drawer before setting a predetermined folding pattern.
According to the company getting a machine to fold the laundry is actually more complicated than one might imagine, since it involves advanced image analysis and a suite of robotic tools. As such it takes a few minutes to fold each item, but then again don't we all?