Robot chair goes on tour with its fall-apart pull-self-back-together act
The Robotic Chair looks like a regular wooden straight-backed chair, until it falls apart into several pieces… whereupon the pieces invoke their 14 motors, 2 gearboxes, and various other components to pull the entire chair back together into a regular-looking free-standing chair again. (Go see the video for yourself.) While the Chair was designed simply as an art piece, the implications weren’t lost on commenters: “They can use this technology to make robots that can be regenerative if destroyed.” Could they do that with my clothes closet? [GT]
Raffaello D’Andrea’s robotic chair creates stir online, falling apart and reassembling itself [via Gizmodo]
Related stories: AIC-AI Cookingrobot cooks and Robot Waiter 1 serves | Kao + Kelo = feels-like-skin for robots | Robots learn to reproduce
