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Panasonic, Daiwa House Industry and Seven Dreamers Laboratories bared October 7 that the troika would embark on developing a totally fully automatic washing machine that washes, rinses, dries and fold the laundry in 2019. A sensor discriminates types of laundry and folds them each in its own way.



Now, to prelude the arrival of the dreamer washer two years in advance, the team is marketing an automatic laundry folding machine "Laundroid" in 2017. This is about the size of a refrigerator with a robot mounted within to fold a piece of laundry in 5-10 minutes, handling at a time 4.5 kg of daily laundry of a family of four.



The laundry folding machine is exhibited at the largest international consumer electronics show "CEATEC Japan 2015" opened at Makuhari Messe October 7.







The machine is being developed in three stages: by 2017 the current model that folds only, the next-generation model that folds and sorts in 2018 and lastly the final version that washes, dries and folds in 2019.



One of the troika, Seven Dreamers, marketed in March 2019 a custom-made high-class carbon golf club and in July 2014 a unique snore-controlling device called "Nascent". The laundry folding machine is their third product.



At the current "CEATEC Japan 2015" at Makuhari Messe Taiyo Yuden is demonstrating their pulsation (pulse wave)-detecting sensor and Alps Electric a compact sensor to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood vessel.



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