# Can humanoid robots do laundry?

**No humanoid does home laundry as a deployed capability; the folding you have seen is a demo.** No humanoid does home laundry as a deployed capability on DEPLOY's record. The folding clips are real but controlled: Figure has shown its Helix humanoid folding towels autonomously, and 1X markets NEO for folding and tidying, though independent reporting found NEO's home tasks were run with a remote human operator. Those are demonstrations and product claims, attributed to their makers, not a laundry robot you can deploy at home.

Last verified Jul 26, 2026. 4 sources.

## Short answer

Not as something you can deploy at home. On DEPLOY's record, no humanoid does household laundry as a real, deployed capability. What exists are folding demonstrations, and they are worth understanding precisely.

Folding laundry is one of the hardest manipulation tasks a robot can attempt, because fabric is deformable: it has no fixed shape, bunches and slips, and offers no single correct grasp. That is exactly why the demos are notable. Figure released video of its Helix-powered humanoid folding towels one by one into a basket, which Figure calls the first fully autonomous instance of a humanoid folding laundry with an end-to-end neural network. It is a genuine, on-camera demonstration, and it is staged: a controlled setup Figure frames as a research achievement.

1X takes a different route. It sells NEO as a home humanoid that folds laundry and tidies, for $20,000 or $499 a month. But when a reporter tested it, the household tasks were run with a 1X employee in a VR headset remotely operating the robot, so the folding you see marketed is human-assisted, not autonomous. LG likewise demonstrated a CLOiD humanoid starting a wash cycle and folding garments at CES 2026, again a prototype showcase.

So the honest answer is that laundry folding is a demonstrated and claimed capability, not a deployed one. The robots doing it are real and on DEPLOY's record as models, but none is deployed as a home laundry robot. Everything here is dated and attributed to its source, so you can watch the demos and judge them yourself.

## What the record holds

Read live from DEPLOY's reviewed registry. DEPLOY tracks humanoids, but none is deployed as a home laundry robot, so the laundry answer is an honest absence.

| What the record holds | Status | As of | Detail | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deployed home laundry humanoid: No humanoid does home laundry as a deployed capability on the record. | Not on the record | Jul 26, 2026 | DEPLOY holds 107 reviewed humanoid models. None carries a verified home-laundry deployment. Humanoids appear in factory and logistics pilots on the record, not as a home laundry robot, so the laundry answer is an honest absence, not a claim. | not on record |

## The folding demos, dated and attributed

Each robot is read from its verified registry record; each folding demonstration is attributed to the maker and dated to its source. Every one is a controlled or human-assisted demo, not a deployed home capability.

| Robot | Staged laundry demo | Status | As of | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NEO (1X Technologies) | 1X sells NEO for home chores including folding laundry, but the demos used a remote operator. 1X markets NEO as a home humanoid that folds laundry and tidies, priced at $20,000 or $499 a month. Independent reporting found the household tasks NEO performed for a reporter were run with a 1X employee in a VR headset remotely operating the robot, not autonomous folding. It is a product claim with a teleoperation caveat, not a verified capability. | Claimed, human-assisted | Feb 26, 2026 (as reported) | [1X Technologies](https://www.1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot) (2025-10-28), [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/humanoid-robot-that-will-do-chores-for-you-robotics-company-1x/) (2026-02-26) |
| LG CLOiD (LG) | LG's CLOiD humanoid showed a laundry demo at CES 2026. At CES 2026, LG demonstrated a household humanoid, CLOiD, starting a laundry cycle and folding and stacking garments after drying. LG presented it as a prototype in its Zero Labor Home concept, a staged showcase, not a shipping product. | Staged demo | Jan 6, 2026 (as reported) | [Interesting Engineering](https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/lg-demo-household-humanoid-robot) |
| Figure 02 (Figure AI) | Figure showed its Helix-powered humanoid folding laundry fully autonomously. Figure released video of its Helix humanoid folding towels one by one into a basket, which Figure calls the first instance of a humanoid with multi-fingered hands folding laundry fully autonomously with an end-to-end neural network. It is a controlled demonstration Figure frames as a research achievement, not a home deployment. | Autonomous demo | Aug 12, 2025 (as reported) | [Figure AI](https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-learns-to-fold-laundry) |

## How we know this

- [1X Technologies](https://www.1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot) (2025-10-28)
- [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/humanoid-robot-that-will-do-chores-for-you-robotics-company-1x/) (2026-02-26)
- [Interesting Engineering](https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/lg-demo-household-humanoid-robot)
- [Figure AI](https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-learns-to-fold-laundry)

## Common questions

### Is there a robot that can fold laundry?

In demos, yes. Figure has shown its Helix-powered humanoid folding towels fully autonomously, and 1X markets NEO for folding clothes. But these are controlled demonstrations, and NEO's home tasks were found to be run with a remote human operator. No humanoid is deployed as a home laundry robot on DEPLOY's record, so folding laundry is a demonstrated capability, not a deployed one.

### Can the Figure robot fold laundry?

Figure released video of its Helix-powered humanoid folding towels one by one, which it calls the first fully autonomous instance of a humanoid folding laundry with an end-to-end neural network. The fold is real and on camera. What it is not is a deployed home capability: it is a controlled demonstration Figure presents as a research achievement, not a product doing your laundry at home.

### Can the 1X NEO robot do laundry?

1X markets NEO as a home humanoid that folds laundry and tidies. But independent reporting found that when a reporter tested NEO, the household tasks were run with a 1X employee in a VR headset remotely operating the robot, not performed autonomously. So NEO's laundry folding is a marketed, human-assisted capability with a teleoperation caveat, not a verified autonomous one.

### Why is folding laundry hard for robots?

Fabric is deformable. Unlike a rigid box, a towel or shirt constantly changes shape, bends unpredictably, and can bunch or slip, so there is no fixed geometry to memorize and no single correct grasp point. A slight finger slip ruins the fold. That is why a clean folding demo is a genuine engineering milestone, and also why doing it reliably in a messy real home, rather than a staged setup, remains unsolved.

### Will humanoid robots do laundry in the future?

It is plausible but not established, and DEPLOY does not predict it. Makers are investing heavily and the folding demos are improving quickly, so a humanoid that helps with laundry is a reasonable expectation over time. But the gap between a staged fold and reliable, autonomous home laundry is real. DEPLOY will record a deployed home-laundry capability as and when it is verifiably in the field, not before.

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