Everyone is talking about laundry folding robots—but are they REALLY the future?

When I heard that not one, but two laundry-folding robots would be on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas, I initially ignored them. After all, I assumed they were vaporware. Foldimate, whose consumer-focused robot is expected to sell for $980, only had a mockup on display, and customers who order now won't get their robot until late 2019. And, although the $16,000 (!) Laundroid actually folded clothes on the show floor, the refrigerator-sized device was big enough that, theoretically, a human could've been inside doing all the work. It's not that robots will never be folding your laundry.