Furniture meets robotics: superpower to show/hide what's used
Furniture meets robotics: superpower to show/hide what's used
Robotics-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Hasier Larrea wants to give furniture superpowers. In response to rising rents and populations in global cities, he has created a tool to make small spaces work harder with robotics. http://orisystems.com
As head of Architectural Robotics research at the MIT Media Lab, Larrea spent 4 years developing strategies for “living large in a small space”: his team created an “army of furniture with superpowers” and built a 200 square-foot living laboratory focused on using mechatronics (electronics plus mechanical engineering).
Now, his company Ori- Japanese for “to fold”- has created robotic furniture that transforms into a bedroom, living room or an office with the push of a button.
Ori System’s first offering (widely available in early 2017) is a morphing wall that divides any studio into separate spaces by pushing a button for one of the presets: living room, bedroom and office (the lighting is also preset to change for the individual rooms). The unit, designed by Yves Béhar, resembles a large wall of shelves with a closet, drawers, pop-out desk and a trundle-style bed which slides out automatically when the bedroom setting is pushed.
What makes the system function is fairly simple: a mechanical actuator to slide the bed and the wall, embedded sensors for safety (the furniture stops morphing if motion is detected, similar to a garage-door opener) and the computer portion leaves the system open to be upgraded with new apps (with future versions of the software, the unit could be controlled by voice or gestures). The furniture can be controlled by smartphone so users can set up their space before arriving home.
Ori is currently rolling out the product in three cities (Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C.), working directly with commercial and residential real estate developers (we filmed with him in Skanska’s Watermark Seaport building in Boston).
Larrea says that future iterations of the product will take advantage of vertical space by moving a bed or table to the ceiling when not in use. Ori is launching with two options- systems for a full, or queen, size bed- and customizable storage and cabinetry colors, but in the future Larrea hopes that his creation will scale to serve even the DIY/maker community.
Original story: https://faircompanies.com/videos/furniture-meets-robotics-superpower-to-showhide-whats-used/
Its fun and games until the bed closing on its own when you sleep.
Why does this give me the vibe of a movie villain trying to fix humanities problems but no one accepts him. So basically stop this man before he becomes evil with his furniture bots.
Has anyone thought of applying this to RV? We already have slide-outs. How else could we take advantage of a very limited living space? You could do more than what is already being done.
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The children-less society of the future guided by morons like these, because how the f#$@! are you going to have children in this tiny piece of crap
"… When people hear robotics they collapse…", no, when people hear you they collapse
Fuckin stupidity. All I keep thinking is that when I forget to make my bed, that thing is going to jam and eat my sheets like printer paper.
The perfect murder (or practical joke gone wrong). Stand over your sleeping victim, raise your hand and in goes the bed. "I didn’t touch the victim, Your Honour." Actually, these things you can do with robotics is appealing and I enjoyed the vid, but not my bed thanks.
lioz shem tov is coming for you.
Gotta love how they try to sell customisation as a feature when all they mean is different ways to flip a switch.
throw a HARDCORE dab in a future house —-> house : TOTAL REMAKE !!!
Definition of robot
1: a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently […]
Superpowers? Basically furniture with wheels.
Honestly this is cool and love the design, but don’t really see the need for all the electronics, rollers would have been enough. I could see a use for this if it just automatically moved around at certain times or under certain conditions. (Still watching the video, sounds like you could customise it to do this which is really cool). Also sex on this thing would make so much noise I’d be worried about breaking it, not exactly something you want in a small apartment. This is 3 years old… thanks a lot YouTube… 😐
Now your furniture and house will be hackable. Your bed can get BSOD! Haha
Watch the movie Fifth element and pay attention to the apartment
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gatta go to work by the time that bed comes out
Adapting to a box 101….
this cool
Let’s say I’m sleeping in my badass robot bed when my sagnificant other walks in the room and starts waving their hands in anger because I ate the last piece of pizza ,would the bed put it’s self away, while I’m in it?🌜🍕🤔💭🛋️🏬🎟️💨🙌😬
The other thing to think about with these robotic systems is accessibility for people with disabilities and that it takes a lot of effort to transform rooms without these mechanical aids. I would focus on the speech to transform function rather than gestures
tipp for something to add add a harddrive so you could save positions and activate them with a voice command so you could just use a voicecommand like bedroom or dinner….
parece español el señor que habla xD
It makes no difference where you put the exercise wheel when you live in a rat cage…. I would rather live in the country in a big house then smell everybody’s butt holes living in a 400sqft condo.
"This will allow more people to live in the city, this is exactly what Boston needs." Said no one ever.
7:10 listen carefully…
And then…
RUN! nananana
what if you run out of power ?
lol
he and his wife have one piece of clothes? how much volume does it contain? no curtains?
So we just watched a moving box with extending table and bed working for 20 minutes.
Seriously you have a large space you don’t need to hide every single thing that you still need gestures wait for few seconds to activate them. That’s so annoying for daily use.
Don’t get me wrong, I love this, and how it looks. But…you should address the issue that sometimes electronics fails. And cannot be fixed by human hands or tools just like that. Also, If its connected to the internet it can be hacked.
All I see that these people just did was make those motorized movable backroom store racks like the ones in Walmart for the masses! Those racks technically do just that! They move what’s on them back & forth! The Walmart I used to work at, the assemblers bay was built into those rolling racks, which was a great space saver! Great job bringing this to the masses! PS: the rolling racks at Walmart was from lay-a-way but at the time I worked there, lay-a-way was canceled due too many people where abusing it by putting things on lay-a-way then canceling their order to just put it back on lay-a-way when the item went on sale or clearance then if it got another bigger sale/clearance they would cancel then put it back on at the lower price! Now, Walmart’s lay-a-way is back but there are restrictions on what can go/when lay-a-way is available, plus many(nearly all walmarts) have a restocking fee of at least $20 or 20%(whatever is greater) which for us that does use lay-a-way the way it was to be used can still use it when we need too!
Again, great idea for the masses, if/when I need/want to add these, I’m glad that there is someone out there that will make this easier for me to get this setup!
The worst is if this robotic shit will brake and smash you in the night under the ferniture wall.
humens should do this kind of work for they daily active muscles…its makes humens more lazier….robots helpful for heavy weight lift…doing risky works…fire fighting rescue,,under sea rescue…its may helpful..not makes humens lazyyyy
I’m pretty sure this is not the end of it. This is just the beginning…
and this can be yours for the low price of $47,000
The Spanish accent is hard in this one!
i wouldnt mind a bed that fits under the wardrobe… mounting my monitors to the back of the wardrobe is an idea i hadnt thought off.
i’m adding that into my plans for a studio apartment. i dont need many things to move around. but these ideas are really helpful to keep stuff neat and as i go over 35 years old
I will buy this furniture if comes with the girl 19:33
i would love to see a episode with these tools retrofitted to one of the older video’s houses
I’d live in that apartment
The bed: **Superpowers activated**
The bed: Humans are tasty
lol imagine someone’s taking a dump and all of a sudden some one move the walls around it hahaha.
I’d just stand there pretending to be Darth Vader the whole day
watch the drone close up the bed when you sleep talks and squish you
YES! MORE WORKERS! LESS SPACE! HIGHER RENT PAYMENTS! COMPACT! COMPACT! COMPACT!
What if you’re sleeping and your girlfriend wants to use the bathroom?
Este tio es mas Español que Antonio Banderas.
I have a minimalist mindset so this really appeals to me. The cost however…is likely a bit more than I’d be comfortable with. Maybe without the robotic parts though.
20min of bla bla, just watch the first 2min