It's 2018 and robots still won't do our laundry

For women of the early 20th century, the first automatic laundry machine must have seemed like a miracle. Gone were the days of washboards and handcranks, of raw fingers and hunched shoulders. With just the push of a button, you could send your clothes spinning. When you returned a mere hour later, the suds had cleared and your wardrobe felt like new. These days, though, the laundromat feels utterly devoid of miracles.