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Panasonic's laundry machine concept does all the work for you
The company displayed a concept called the Sustainable Maintainer that automatically does the laundry.
Ashlee Clark Thompson Associate Editor
Ashlee spent time as a newspaper reporter, AmeriCorps VISTA and an employee at a healthcare company before she landed at CNET. She loves to eat, write and watch "Golden Girls" (preferably all three at the same time). The first two hobbies help her out as an appliance reviewer. The last one makes her an asset to trivia teams. Ashlee also created the blog, AshleeEats.com, where she writes about casual dining in Louisville, Kentucky.
Panasonic's Sustainable Maintainer is located behind reflective glass at the company's booth at IFA 2017.
A concept machine from Panasonic makes a big promise to complete every step of laundry -- from sorting to folding and everything in between.
Panasonic displayed the appliance, called the Sustainable Maintainer, at the IFA 2017 trade show in Berlin. Here's how it worked during a demonstration:
- You place clothes inside the machine.
- Grabbers lift each garment, and the machine scans it in search of stains and product care information.
- The machine lays the garment flat and sends it across a conveyor belt. The machine finds the previously identified stains and washes only those.
- The machine sucks the clothing dry, then grabs the garment and folds it.
The Sustainable Maintainer is just a concept, so it's not clear whether it will ever make its way into stores. But it shows that Panasonic, like many other companies at IFA 2017, has a growing concern for clothing care.
