This 12-Year-Old Girl Built A Cheap Machine That Fold Your Clothes In 3 Seconds

Though these children have been coding for just a couple of years, they have already managed to build their own machines for assistance in their daily work. For example, this Nigerian girl, named Fathia Abdullahi, built a cheap clothes-folding robot. And the machine is freaking fast!

Notably, the girl is only twelve years old, so it’s even more impressive that she has created an ingenious machine which will fold clothes automatically once you put them on its panels.

Talking to Reuters, Abdullahi said that she built the machine with an EV3 brick, some beams, and pins. Specifically, the EV3 brick is a programmable circuit working as the heart of Mindstorms Education robots of LEGO, which children can make and program on their own to conduct basic tasks.

Though the folding robot that Abdullahi has built is just a prototype, it can fold an item automatically when you place a piece of clothes on it in no more than three seconds. The 12-year-old creator said that she has plans to further develop this device and wants to sell it to local people through markets with the aim of making their chores easier.

This machine is honestly amazing considering that CES 2019 also welcomed Foldimate, a laundry-folding machine which was made more professionally. The machine even does the task slower than Abdullahi’s device, taking five seconds to fold an item. Apart from that, it doesn’t fold items that are too small or extra-large such as sheets and baby clothes. The machine is far more expensive too, priced at up to Rs 68,328 ($1,000).