Socks are the hardest. For a future washing machine that washes, dries and then folds the results, it's one of the small barriers that remains in that latter stage. But as a research project that ...

LAS VEGAS -- Gone are the days of folding your own laundry, now there's a machine to do it all for you. It's called FoldiMate, and it's folding its way to fame one shirt at a time at CES in Las Vegas.

Too bad this gadget can’t do the ironing, too. Panasonic teamed up with tech company Seven Dreamers and Japan’s largest homebuilder, Daiwa House, to create the Laundroid — a laundry-folding robot.

I clipped in my Verge T-shirt to the machine, which pulled in the shirt and produced a neatly folded shirt in about five seconds. Foldimate says that you can fold an entire load of laundry in about ...