$16,000 voice controlled Laundroid can fold your laundry

You could soon fold a mountain of clean laundry without lifting a finger. A Japanese firm has combined its $16,500 fully automatic laundry folding robot with a desk lamp that responds to voice controls. Since Lumigent lights up automatically when spoken to, the integration will enable the lamp to command the basic Laundroid operations. Users simply load the machine with clean dry clothes and the robot arm inside will do the rest. Prior to the latest announcement, the machine operated via an app or control buttons on the device.